Cognition : The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social

By E. Herrmann, J. Call, M. Hernández-Lloreda, Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello. 2008

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “Indeed, theories suggest that the evolution of mind perception was driven by the same concerns for the evolution of morality, allowing individuals to navigate group living (DeScioli & Kurzban, 2009 ; Herrmann, Call, Hernandez-Lloreda, Hare, & Tomasello, 2007 ).”
Reflexively mindblind: Using theory of mind to interpret behavior requires effortful attention (2010, background): “The ability to reason about others’ mental states appears to be the mental capacity that makes humans uniquely intelligent (Herrmann et al., 2007).”
The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture (2010, result): “In a recent study, we tested this hypothesis – in comparison with what we called the cultural intelligence hypothesis – by giving a very large test battery (a kind of nonverbal IQ test) to two of humans’ closest primate relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, along with 2-year-old human children (Her”
The dog as a model for understanding human social behavior (2009, background): “In line with these, human evolution is best viewed as a process that affected many features of social behavior in a complex interacting way (Byrne, 2005; Hermann et al., 2007).”
Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (2018, background): “Social learning is incredibly important for humans, and has been linked to our ability to achieve unprecedented progress and coordination on a massive scale (Henrich, 2015; Harari, 2014; Laland, 2017; van Schaik & Burkart, 2011; Herrmann et al., 2007).”
How to ascribe beliefs to animals (2020, background): “…components <object-type; 15 We know from the systematic comparison of chimpanzees and orangutans with children of age 2.5 years that in non-linguistic physical tasks all three groups perform equally well, while the children are only better in nonlinguistic social tasks (Herrmann et al. 2007).”
Human nature and cognitive–developmental niche construction (2010, background): “We acquire skills not possessed by other primates, and often not even shared by all humans; humans create experts (Herrmann et al. 2007).”
Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution (2012, background): “growth with social and environmental factors during these periods mediates cognition in crucial ways, particularly given the extended lifespan and enriched cultural context of humans (29).”
A Mind like Mine: The Exceptionally Ordinary Underpinnings of Anthropomorphism (2018, background): “This social sense makes human being uniquely intelligent in the social world compared to our nearest primate relatives (Herrmann et al. 2007), easily able to reason quickly and easily about another person’s thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and opinions.”