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Everything about Shared intentionality
Psychological concept
Shared intentionality is a concept in psychology that describes the human capacity to engage with the psychological states of others. According to conventional wisdom in cognitive sciences, shared intentionality supports the development of everything from cooperative interactions and knowledge assimilation to moral identity and cultural evolution that provides building societies, being a pre-requisite of social reality formation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Shared intentionalityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Shared intentionality modulates interpersonal neural synchronization at the establishment of communication systemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Cartesian meditationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Shared intentionalityCited 698 times
- Go sideways: Extended mind thesisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Collective behaviorA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Shared intentionality
Let’s Dance Together: Synchrony, Shared Intentionality and Cooperation
What Makes Human Cognition Unique? From Individual to Shared to Collective Intentionality
Cultural Affordances: Scaffolding Local Worlds Through Shared Intentionality and Regimes of Attention
How children come to understand false beliefs: A shared intentionality account
Imitation and Shared Intentionality in the Acheulean
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture
The paradox of social interaction: Shared intentionality, we-reasoning, and virtual bargaining.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Shared intentionality modulates interpersonal neural synchronization at the establishment of communication system
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding
A New Perspective on Assessing Cognition in Children through Estimating Shared Intentionality
Dogs re-engage human partners when joint social play is interrupted: a behavioural signature of shared intentionality?
The role of empathy in shared intentionality: Contributions from Inter-Processual Self theory
📚 Books worth reading
Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
Mental realityGalen Strawson · 1994- 📕Single-Minded AnimalPreston Stovall · 2021
Self-evaluationAnita Konzelmann Ziv, Keith Lehrer · 2011- 📕Multi-Generational LivingGary Klaben · 2024
Why we cooperateMichael Tomasello · 2009
What is it about me you can't teach?Eleanor Renée Rodriguez, James A. Bellanca · 2006- 📕Law, truth and reasonRaimo Siltala · 2011
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