Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social understanding research

An important amount of research effort in psychology and neuroscience over the past decades has focused on the problem of social cognition. This problem is understood as how we figure out other minds, relying only on indirect manifestations of other people's intentional states, which are assume...

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Main Author: Hanne De Jaegher (auth)
Other Authors: Ezequiel Di Paolo (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
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