Mindreading, Mindshaping, and Evolution

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Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “…already started to use this nicheconstruction perspective to explore how culturally transmitted “expectancies” – the mind-shaping effects of our mind-reading dispositions – can become an important developmental resource for humans, and critically affect the evolution of cognition (Mameli 2001).”
Nongenetic Selection and Nongenetic Inheritance (2004, background): “Genetic transmission is evolutionarily very powerful (Sterelny [2001], [2004], Sterelny et al. [1996]).”
What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, background): “In that work, some philosophers argue that folk-psychology serves “mindshaping”, that is, the moulding of people’s behavior and minds so that they fit our conceptions, making people more predictable and cooperation with them easier (Mameli 2001; Zawidzki 2013; Peters 2019b).”
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010, background): “…2008), primatology (e.g., Fragaszy and Visalberghi 2001; Fragaszy and Perry 2003; Flack et al. 2006; Iriki and Sakura 2008), psychology (e.g., Mameli 2001; Mesoudi 2008), evolutionary anthropology (e.g., Laland and Brown 2006) and demography (e.g., Ihara and Feldman 2004; Kendal et al. 2005;…”