Social Cognition and the Second Person in Human Interaction, Perez, Gom HB..

Taylor & Francis

Social Cognition and the Second Person in Human InteractionAuthor(s): Diana I. Prez, Antoni Gomila\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367678593, 978-0367678593\nSynopsis\nThis book is a unique exploration of the idea of the \""second person\"" in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding. \n\nChallenging the view of mental attribution as a sort of \""theory of mind\"", Prez and Gomila argue that the second person perspective of mental understanding is the conceptually, ontogenetically, and phylogenetically basic way of understanding mentality. Second person interaction provides the opportunity for the acquisition of concepts of mental states of increasing complexity. The book reviews the growing interest in a variety of second person phenomena, both in development and in adulthood, presenting rese.