By Dimitrios Kourtis, Pierre Jacob, Natalie Sebanz, Dan Sperber & Günther Knoblich. Abstract: We investigated whether communicative cues help observers

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By Andreas Falck, Brent Strickland, and Pierre Jacob. Intro: Human Social Cognition and Developmental Psychology Human social cognition is the

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By Pierre Jacob Abstract Fodor was passionately unwilling to compromise. Of his several commitments, I focus here on informational atomism. Fodor staunchly

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by Pierre Jacob. Abstract: In a (2018) paper published in Psychological Review, Tyler Burge has offered a unified non-mentalistic account

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By Pierre Jacob & Thom Scott-Phillips. Abstract: Non-cognitive gadgets are fancy tools shaped to meet specific, local needs. Cecilia Heyes

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By Katharina A. Helming, Brent Strickland & Pierre Jacob Abstract: Developmental psychology currently faces a deep puzzle: most children before 4

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By Pierre Jacob Abstract What makes one individual’s experience vicarious is that it is both similar to, and caused by, another’s psychological

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By Katharina A. Helming, Brent Strickland & Pierre Jacob. Abstract: We address the puzzle about early belief ascription: young children

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By Pierre Jacob. Abstract: This paper is devoted to an assessment of the three-step model offered by Gallese and col-

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