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“daniel povinelli”

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  • World without weight:Perspectives on an alien mind

    Perspectives on an alien mind

    by Daniel Povinelli ...
    In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. Children from diverse cultures always seem to arrive at a few, common folk theories as they hone their developing brains against roughly similar interactions with people and objects. The result is an impressive panoply ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Aesop's Fable Paradigm

    An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science

    by K. Brandon Barker, Daniel J. Povinelli, Laura Hennefield, Hyesung G. Hwang, William Hansen, Gregory Schrempp ...
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    The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals—animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do—for a very long time. In contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have professed to be ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Primate Psychology

    by Filippo Aureli, Jo-Anne Bachorowski, Michael J. Beran, Jesse M. Bering, Josep Call, Claudio Cantalupo, Lynn A. Fairbanks, Samuel D. Gosling, Franklynn C. Graves, Rebecca A. Herman, J. Dee Higley, William D. Hopkins, Peter G. Judge, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Lori Marino, Michael J. Owren, Lisa A. Parr, Dawn L. Pilcher, Daniel J. Povinelli, Drew Rendall, James R. Roney, Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Michael Tomasello, Alfonso Troisi, Kim Wallen, Andrew Whiten, Julia L. Zehr ...
    In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Other Minds

    Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

    Edited by Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo, Helen Tager-Flusberg ...
    This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mindsa theory of mind (ToM). The four sections of the book cover developmental, cultural, and neurobiological approaches to ToM across ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Becoming a Tiger

    How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild

    by Susan McCarthy ...
    From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive.How does a baby animal figure out how to get around in the world? How much of what animals know is instinctive, and how much must they learn?In Becoming a Tiger, bestselling author ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them.What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Anxious

    Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

    by Joseph LeDoux ...
    **“[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world.” —Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain On MusicA comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self**Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Primate Communication

    A Multimodal Approach

    by Katja Liebal, Bridget M. Waller, Anne M. Burrows, Katie E. Slocombe ...
    Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial expressions to initiate play. Primate Communication brings together research on all forms of interchange and discusses what we know about primate communication via vocal, gestural, facial, olfactory and integrated ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Language Instinct

    How The Mind Creates Language

    by Steven Pinker ...
    "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book ReviewThe classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mindIn The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Emotional Brain

    The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

    by Joseph Ledoux ...
    What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Genius of Birds

    by Jennifer Ackerman ...
    **“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review“A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific AmericanAn award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess**Birds are astonishingly ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

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  • Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

    Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion

    by Belinda Recio ...
    As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD