Parental education is the strongest measured predictor of offspring education, and thus many scholars see the parent-child correlation in educational attainment as an important measure of social mobility. But if social changes or policy interventions are going to have dynastic effects, we need to know what accounts for this intergenerational association, that is, whether it is primarily environ...

This thesis is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, both in science and on an everyday level. The thesis develops a theory of anthropomorphism in com...

Brain correlates of the sense of agency have recently received increased attention. However, the explorations remain largely restricted to the study of brains in isolation. The prototypical paradigm used so far consists of manipulating visual perception of own action while asking the subject to draw a distinction between self- versus externally caused action. However, the recent definition of a...

In social interaction, gaze behavior provides important signals that have a significant impact on our perception of others. Previous investigations, however, have relied on paradigms in which participants are passive observers of other persons' gazes and do not adjust their gaze behavior as is the case in real-life social encounters. We used an interactive eye-tracking paradigm that allows part...

In this chapter Evans discusses ‘I’-ideas. They are similar to ‘here’-Ideas and ‘that’-Ideas in that they pivot on functional connections to perception and action. But they differ in key respects. First, unlike ‘that’-Ideas, the connections can be latent. And second, unlike ‘here’or ‘that-Ideas, there is only one object tracked as ‘I’, which makes the cognitive worklaod easier, but introduces i...

This paper studies how audience members categorize and evaluate ambiguous offerings. Depending on whether offerings based prototypes or goals, they activate two distinct cognitive mechanisms differently We expect that when audiences engage in goal- versus prototype-based categorization, their evaluation of products increases. theorize that, under goal-based the perceived utility unclear attribu...

Abstract Quevedo wrote a short prose funeral speech dedicated to the Swedish monarch, who died in Lützen 1632. The text is considered an incomplete letter with uncertain addressee since Astrana included it his Epistolary . purpose of this article offer critical edition aforementioned writing, based on five manuscripts, two them unknown until now and located Portuguese archive. study all textual...