What Makes Human Cognition Unique? From Individual to Shared to Collective Intentionality

By Michael Tomasello, Hannes Rakoczy. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “…by skills and motivations not just of joint intentionality with other individuals in the moment, but of collective intentionality with the society as a whole (Tomasello and Rakoczy 2003).8 As far as we know, great apes do not have this same kind of group identity or group-mindedness.”
The Early Ontogeny of Social Norms (2013, background): “They are socially constructed; that is, they are brought into existence through the shared intentionality of a community (Searle, 1995; Tomasello & Rakoczy, 2003).”
Understanding minds: Different functions and different disorders? The contribution of psychotherapy research (2007, background): “Between 12 and 18 months, children are able to share in intentionality and goals and engage in cooperative activities (Tomasello & Rakoczy, 2003).”
Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005, background): “Sharing beliefs is responsible for the creation of social-institutional facts such as money, marriage, and government, whose reality is grounded totally in the collective practices and beliefs of a social group conceived generally (Tomasello & Rakoczy 2003).”
The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture (2010, background): “Importantly, following Harris (1996), Tomasello and Rakoczy (2003) argued and presented evidence that coming to understand false beliefs – the fact that someone else’s cognitive perspective about a state of affair is different from what I know to be true – depends on children’s participation over a…”
Co‐occupation: Extending the dialogue (2009, background): “Shared intentionality requires that two people have mutually established goals, that they understand the other person’s behavior as goal directed, and that they are capable of sharing roles (Tomasello & Rakoczy, 2003).”
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “…by skills and motivations not just of joint intentionality with other individuals in the moment, but of collective intentionality with the society as a whole (Tomasello and Rakoczy 2003).8 As far as we know, great apes do not have this same kind of group identity or group-mindedness.”
The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “Interestingly, however, while ToM is associated with the prefrontal cortex of primates (Call et al., 2004; Povinelli et al., 2003; Tomasello & Rakoczy, 2003), it is believed to lie in the forebrain of corvids (Bugnyar & Heinrich, 2005, 2006).”