Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511565526 |
| Open Library | OL21004099W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 1994 - 2009 |
| Language | EN |
Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans, and other species, focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. Several chapters focus on the controversial question of whether gorillas, like other great apes and human infants, are capable of mirror self-recognition (MSR) or whether they are anomalously unable to do so. Other chapters focus on whether macaque monkeys are capable of MSR. The focus of the chapters is both comparative and developmental: several contributors explore the value of frameworks from human developmental psychology for comparative studies. This dual focus - comparative and developmental - reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, which brings together biological anthropologists, comparative and developmental psychologists, and cognitive scientists from Japan, France, Spain, Hungary, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States.
Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans
Social imitation and the emergence of a mental model of self
Self-awareness, and the object of its reflection, the self-concept, are central features of the conscious experience of adult humans in Euro-American cultures. The phenomenal reality of these facets of experience have fascinated scholars interested in human nature for centuries. Philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and literary critics have offered (often contradictory) perspectives on the essence of the sense of self. Perh…
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Social imitation and the emergence of a mental model of self
Self-awareness, and the object of its reflection, the self-concept, are central features of the conscious experience of adult humans in Euro-American cultures. The phenomenal reality of these facets of experience have fascinated scholars interested in human nature for centuries. Philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and literary critics have offered (often contradictory) perspectives on the essence of the sense of self. Perh…
Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans