Causal curiosity and the conventionality of culture
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (5):709-709 (2005)
| Abstract | Tomasello et al. argue that cultural cognition derives from humans' unique motivation to share psychological states. We suggest that what underlies this motivation is children's propensity to seek out the underlying causes of behavior. This propensity, combined with children's competence at it, makes them especially skillful at acquiring the intentional, conventional, and reliable forms that constitute culture. | |||||||||
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