The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate that intentionality is a key issue in the cognitive and social sciences. Moreover, in a way that was anticipated more than a century ago by the seminal work of J. Mark Baldwin, they are beginning to reveal how the control of action is related in development to children's emerging self-conscious and their increasingly sophisticated appreciation of other people's perspectives.
This volume brings together the world's leading researchers on early social and cognitive development in an in-depth exploration of children's understanding of themselves and others.
Preface ix 1 Introduction: Actions, Intentions, and Attributions 1(14) David R. Olson Janet Wilde Astington Philip David Zelazo PART I DEVELOPMENT OF INTENTION AND INTENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD 15(152) 2 Toddlers Understanding of Intentions, Desires and Emotions: Explorations of the Dark Ages 17(26) Andrew N. Meltzoff Alison Gopnik Betty M. Repacholi 3 Intentional Relations and Triadic Interactions 43(20) Chris Moore 4 Having Intentions, Understanding Intentions, and Understanding Communicative Intentions 63(14) Michael Tomasello 5 Intentions, Consciousness, and Pretend Play 77(18) Michael Lewis Douglas Ramsay 6 Language, Levels of Consciousness, and The Development of Intentional Action 95(24) Philip David Zelazo 7 Development of Intention: The Relation of Executive Function to Theory of Mind 119(14) Douglas Frye 8 Executive Functions and Theory of Mind: Cognitive Complexity or Functional Dependence? 133(20) Josef Perner Sandra Stummer Birgit Lang 9 The Theory of Ascriptions 153(14) David R. Olson Deepthi Kamawar PART II COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INTENTIONALITY 167(60) 10 Primate Representations and Expectations: Mental Tools for Navigating in a Social World 169(26) Marc D. Hauser 11 Social Understanding in Chimpanzees: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Approach 195(32) Daniel J. Povinelli PART III THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTENTIONALITY 227(66) 12 Making Sense of the Social World: Mindreading, Emotion, and Relationships 229(14) Judy Dunn 13 Influences on Maternal Attribution of Infant Intentionality 243(26) J. Steven Reznick 14 Intention and Emotion in Child Psychopathology: Building Cooperative Plans 269(24) Jenny Jenkins Rachel Greenbaum PART IV INTENTIONALITY AND LANGUAGE 293(48) 15 The Language of Intention: Three Ways of Doing It 295(22) Janet Wilde Astington 16 Intentionality and Interpretation 317(12) Carol Fleisher Feldman 17 The Intentionality of Referring 329(12) Jerome Bruner Author Index 341(10) Subject Index 351(6) Contributors 357
Philip David Zelazo, Janet Wilde Astington, David R. Olson
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