Reading Minds

Preface Chapter 1: Reading Minds 101 How We Begin Reading the Minds of Others Mistakes Are Made Life Without Reading Minds: Autism and Mind Blindness Going Forward Chapter 2: Mindreading, Gossip, and Liars Gossip: Can You Blame Your Primate DNA? Reading Minds 102 Not Just for Experts: Everyday Psychology Lies, Damned Lies, and Deceptions How to Detect Liars Our Social Brain Chapter 3: Friends, Secrets, and Lies Children Master False Beliefs Back to Africa Lies and Deception Hiding and Secrets Persuasion Ruby Bridges and Friendlessness Chapter 4: Imagination and Reality Real or Imagined: Can Children Tell? Jean Piaget Imaginary Companions Mixing Mind and Reality--We All Do It In Sum Chapter 5: Putting the Theory in Theory of Mind Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures Everyday Theories Building Theories Theory? Or Not? Chapter 6: Block by Block Building Theory of Mind How Deafness Influences Theory of Mind Stepping Up Deaf with Deaf Parents Watching a Sign Language Arise Enhancing Theory of Mind Can Sequences Differ? Theories Beget Theories Building with Blocks Chapter 7: The Baby Boom: Where Reading Minds Begins Infants' Social Understanding How It's Done Preferences How Infants Understand People Further Questions Primal Egocentrism False Beliefs? Human Learning: The Real Baby Boom Chapter 8: Superpowers, God, Omniscience, and Afterlife Superheroes How Children Link to God Omniscience? Does Religion Help? Adult, Too The Living Dead Afterlife Is Your Mind Invisible? Is Your Brain? The Invisible Brain The Soul Has It Transcending the Ordinary Chapter 9: Possible Worlds, Possible Minds When People Don't Care When God Talks Back Mind Overcomes Reality People Everywhere are Different, People Everywhere are Just the Same Teaching and Time Rubber Band Development Contradictions and Progress Chapter 10: Chimps, Dogs and Us: The Evolution of Reading Minds How Human Are They? Rich or Lean? The Lean Getting Richer Chimp Limitations Human versus Chimp: Sharing, Helping, and Acquiring Sharing and Cooperation Helpful Disclosures Helpful Acts My Dog Can Read My Mind Temperamental Humans Social Intelligence Chapter 11: The Social Brain Cells that Read Minds How It Works Yawning Infects Us TOM: The Theory of Mind Network Childish Brains Plastic Brains Chapter 12: Hi, Robot The Uncanny Valley Creepiness Creeps In Learning from Robots Trustworthy Testimony Developing Ideas about Robots Younger Children Learn from Robots Younger versus Older Children and Robots Feelings toward Robots Morality for Robots? Into the Future Chapter 13: Theory of Mind At Work At Work in the Law Mind Bubbles Up Mysteries of Mind Theory of Mind at Work for Childish Adults Theory of Mind Works Against Us Forecasting Feelings Surprise: It's Not the Thought that Counts Easy Knowledge Is Bad for You How to Get Smarter Always Working Chapter 14: Stories, Theories, Minds The Stories We Live By Self-Deceptions and Errors Understanding and Misunderstanding Emotions It's Magic We Don't Know What We Don't Know Reading Minds