Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 2: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Volume 2: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture

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Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 2: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Volume 2: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture

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2005

A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.

Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of seminal work, and revealing why imitation is a topic of such intense current scientific interest.

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Introduction: The Importance of Imitation

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Susan Hurley,

Susan Hurley

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I: Imitation and Human Development
- 1: Imitation and Other Minds: The "Like Me" Hypothesis
  
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  Andrew N. Meltzoff
  
  Andrew N. Meltzoff
  
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- 2: Imitation, Mind Reading, and Simulation
  
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  Alvin I. Goldman
  
  Alvin I. Goldman
  
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- 3: Intentional Agents Like Myself
  
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  Robert M. Gordon
  
  Robert M. Gordon
  
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- 4: No Compelling Evidence to Dispute Piaget’s Timetable of the Development of Representational Imitation in Infancy
  
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  Moshe Anisfeld
  
  Moshe Anisfeld
  
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- 5: Intention Reading and Imitative Learning
  
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  Michael Tomasello,
  
  Michael Tomasello
  
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  Malinda Carpenter
  
  Malinda Carpenter
  
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- 6: On Learning What Not to Do: The Emergence of Selective Imitation in Tool Use by Young Children
  
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  Paul L. Harris,
  
  Paul L. Harris
  
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  Stephen Want
  
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- 7: Imitation as Entrainment: Brain Mechanisms and Social Consequences
  
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  Marcel Kinsbourne
  
  Marcel Kinsbourne
  
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- 8: Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Human Development
  - 8.1: Grasping Action: Paul L. Harris on Meltzoff
    
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    Paul L. Harris
    
    Paul L. Harris
    
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  - 8.2: Do Babies Know What They Look Like?: Doppelgängers and the Phenomenology of Infancy: Nicholas Humphrey on Meltzoff
    
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    Nicholas Humphrey
    
    Nicholas Humphrey
    
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  - 8.3: Construing Selves from Others: Wolfgang Prinz on Goldman
    
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    Wolfgang Prinz
    
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  - 8.4: Some Reflections on the Theory Theory–Simulation Theory Debate: Ruth Garrett Millikan on Goldman
    
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    Ruth Garrett Millikan
    
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  - 8.5: Who Can Imitate Depends on How We Define Imitation: Thomas R. Zentall on Anisfeld
    
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    Thomas R. Zentall
    
    Thomas R. Zentall
    
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  - 8.6: What Does Infant Imitation Tell Us about the Underlying Representations?: Birgit Elsner on Anisfeld
    
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    Birgit Elsner
    
    Birgit Elsner
    
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  - 8.7: Joining the Intentional Dance: Guy Claxton on Tomasello and Carpenter
    
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    Guy Claxton
    
    Guy Claxton
    
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  - 8.8: Two Elegant Experiments: George Comstock on Harris and Want
    
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    George Comstock
    
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  - 8.9: Against Copying: Learning When (and Whom) Not to Ape: Guy Claxton on Kinsbourne
    
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    Guy Claxton
    
    Guy Claxton
    
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  - 8.10: Imitating Violence: Susan Brison on Kinsbourne
    
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    Susan Brison
    
    Susan Brison
    
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II: Imitation and Culture
- 9: Why We Are Social Animals: The High Road to Imitation as Social Glue
  
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  Ap Dijksterhuis
  
  Ap Dijksterhuis
  
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- 10: Deceptive Mimicry in Humans
  
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  Diego Gambetta
  
  Diego Gambetta
  
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- 11: What Effects Does the Treatment of Violence in the Mass Media Have on People’s Conduct? A Controversy Reconsidered
  
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  John Eldridge
  
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- 12: Imitation and the Effects of Observing Media Violence on Behavior
  
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  L. Rowell Huesmann
  
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- 13: Imitation and Moral Development
  
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  Jesse J. Prinz
  
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- 14: Imitation and Mimesis
  
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  Merlin Donald
  
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- 15: Imitation and Rationality
  
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  Robert Sugden
  
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- 16: Common Misunderstandings of Memes (and Genes): The Promise and the Limits of the Genetic Analogy to Cultural Transmission Processes
  
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  Francisco J. Gil-White
  
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- 17: Goals versus Memes: Explanation in the Theory of Cultural Evolution
  
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  Mark Greenberg
  
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- 18: Mendelian and Darwinian Views of Memes and Cultural Change
  
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- 19: Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Culture
  - 19.1: Not Waving but Drowning: Susan Brison on Dijksterhuis
    
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    Susan Brison
    
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  - 19.2: The Imitation Superhighway: Harry Litman on Dijksterhuis
    
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  - 19.3: The Crimes of Proteus: Harry Litman on Gambetta
    
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  - 19.4: Media Violence and Aggression, Properly Considered: George Comstock on Eldridge
    
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  - 19.5: Applying the Science of Imitation to the Imitation of Violence: Susan Hurley on Huesmann
    
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  - 19.6: Acquiring Morality by Imitating Emotions: L. Rowell Huesmann on J. Prinz
    
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  - 19.7: Mirror Systems and Adam Smith's Theory of Sympathy
    
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  - 19.8: The Relation between Language and (Mimetic) Culture: Morten H. Christiansen on Donald
    
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  - 19.9: A Possible Confusion between Mimetic and Memetic: Susan Blackmore on Donald
    
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  - 19.10: Imitation as a Tool of Cooperation and Manipulation: Paul Seabright on Sugden and on Gambetta
    
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  - 19.11: Proving Rationality: Mark Greenberg on Sugden
    
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  - 19.12: Even Deeper Misunderstandings of Memes: Susan Blackmore on Gil-White
    
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  - 19.13: Can Memes Meet the Challenge?: Susan Blackmore on Greenberg and on Chater
    
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Bibliography for Volumes 1 and 2

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Contributors to Volumes 1 and 2

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Index to Volume 1

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Index to Volume 2

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