We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

Adults routinely make sense of others' actions by inferring the mental states that underlie
these actions. Over the past two decades, developmental researchers have made significant …

Learning goal-directed behavior in environments with sparse feedback is a major challenge
for reinforcement learning algorithms. One of the key difficulties is insufficient exploration …

The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines
to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people …

Human development takes place in a social context. Two pervasive sources of social
information are faces and hands. Here, we provide the first report of the visual frequency of …

Humans are endowed with an intuitive number sense that allows us to perceive and
estimate numerosity without relying on language. It is controversial, however, as to whether …

In this paper, we critically review MCI theory and the evidence supporting it. MCI theory
typically posits that religious concepts violate what we call deep inferences, intuitions …

Children's extraordinarily long developmental period and their play and exploratory activities
provide them with a greater opportunity to learn than is found in any other species. We argue …

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works
increased dramatically. The field of cognitive science enables us to understand religious …

When encountering novel objects, humans are able to infer a wide range of physical
properties such as mass, friction and deformability by interacting with them in a goal driven …