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Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

Baron-Cohen, Simon
Cosmides, Leda
Tooby, John

Paperback

Series: Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change

Medical ReferenceCognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 026252225X
ISBN13: 9780262522250
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 22 1997
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of mindreading. He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communication. We ascribe mental states to people: states such as thoughts, desires, knowledge, and intentions.

Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that children with autism, suffer from mindblindness as a result of a selective impairment in mindreading. For these children, the world is essentially devoid of mental things.

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