{"product_id":"reading-minds-henry-m-wellman-9780190878672","title":"Reading Minds: How Childhood Teaches Us to Understand People","description":"The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood. Key to this quest is trying to fathom our inner mental states--our hopes, plans, wants, thoughts, and emotions. Scientists deem this developing a \"theory of mind.\" In \u003cem\u003eReading Minds\u003c\/em\u003e, Henry Wellman tells the story of our journey into that understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur hard-won, everyday comprehension of people and minds is not spoon-fed or taught. Each of us creates a wide-ranging theory of mind step-by-step and uses it to understand how all people work. Failure to learn these steps cripples a child, and ultimately an adult, in areas as diverse as interacting socially, creating a coherent life story, enjoying drama and movies, and living on one's own. Progressing along these steps--as most of us do--allows us to see the nature of our shared humanity, to understand our children and our childhood selves, to teach and to learn from others, and to better navigate and make sense of our social world. Theory of mind is basic to why some of us become religious believers and others atheists, why some of us become novelists and all of us love stories, why some love scary movies and some hate them. \u003cem\u003eReading Minds\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates how we develop this theory of mind as children, how that defines us as individuals, and ultimately how it defines us as human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry M. Wellman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190878673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190878672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Henry M. Wellman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979213701375,"sku":"9780190878672","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c77f5a2e-b6ea-4d09-a1fb-9aec966c686a.jpg?v=1683244498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-minds-henry-m-wellman-9780190878672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}