{"product_id":"how-children-develop-social-understanding-paperback-softback-9781405105507","title":"How Children Develop Social Understanding (Paperback \/ softback) 9781405105507","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow Children Develop Social Understanding\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeremy Carpendale (Author), Charlie Lewis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405105507, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.508 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The best book there is on children's social-cognitive development - full stop.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This extraordinarily comprehensive book provides a lucid account of how children develop social understanding. The authors promise broad inquiry into social development and they consistently deliver pushing well beyond a thorough review of the enormous body of prior work on theory of mind. This book will awaken interest in key developmental questions by a new generation of students who become acquainted with the book in upper level seminars or graduate courses where it most certainly should be assigned.\" \u003ci\u003eNancy Budwig, Professor of Psychology, Clark University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Carpendale and Lewis provide an exceptionally clear analysis of the prominent theoretical explanations of children’s understanding of beliefs. This work won’t end debate, but it may fundamentally revise the research agenda so that the steps along the way to social understanding are more fully revealed.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Hildy Ross, University of Waterloo, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Professors searching for a theoretically rigorous and empirically accurate text to introduce students to the development of children’s social cognition will find what they seek in this text. So too will more advanced scholars and students who desire a comprehensive and incisive treatment of the increasingly vast literature on this topic, and the many lively debates it excites. Hats off to Carpendale and Lewis for a job well done.\" \u003ci\u003eJack Martin, Fraser University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eHow Children Develop Social Understanding is an appreciable piece of work, and I hope Carpendale and Lewis will continue in their successful effort to give us a thoughtful view of children's social-cognitive development. Furthermore, I hope that this book will attract new young researchers from all over the world to the study of a fabulous topic, the development of the child as a social human being.\" \u003cb\u003ePsycCRITIQUES Volume 51, Issue 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an important book, and it succeeds on many levels. Most notably, the extensive literature on children's theory of mind is masterfully reviewed and critically assessed in relation to the accumulated findings, replications of findings, and failures to replicate.\" \u003cb\u003eHuman Development 2006; Issue 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides a critical review of research into how children come to understand the social world, an area often known as children's \"theories of mind\".  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions.\u003cbr\u003e Sets research within a historical and theoretical context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its Wittgensteinian focus on the role of language.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries Editor's Preface. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Social Understanding and Social Interaction: An introduction to the issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Contemporary Theories of Social Understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Understanding False Beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Development of Social Understanding in Infancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Domain General Approaches to Reasoning about the Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding: The role of relationships in social cognitive development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Language and Social Understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Beyond (False) Belief: What do preschoolers still have to learn about the mind?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Social Understanding and Children's Social Lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Constructing an Understanding of Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52433847025944,"sku":"9781405105507","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405105507.jpg?v=1784855534","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-children-develop-social-understanding-paperback-softback-9781405105507","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}