The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

In this paper we outline a framework for the study of the mechanisms involved in the
engagement of human agents with cultural affordances. Our aim is to better understand how …

Cross-cultural research on moral reasoning has brought to the fore the question of whether
moral judgements always turn on inferences about the mental states of others. Formal legal …

Naturalistic, normative, and ethnographic approaches to ethical life seem to describe very
different worlds. Focusing on ordinary social interactions and ideologies surrounding them …

Is there variation across cultures in what counts as a lie? Here we present evidence for a
potentially unique conceptualization of lying in Shuar-Achuar communities in Ecuador …

The literature on language evolution treats the fact that language allows for lying as a major
obstacle to the emergence and development of language, and thus looks for theoretical …

The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the
broadest typological array of languages and language-learning environments if it is to …

Abstract The Bayesian Brain Hypothesis, as formalized by the Free Energy Principal, is
ascendant in the cognitive sciences. But how does the Bayesian Brain obtain prior beliefs …

The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign
have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to …

The intentions of others are ultimately opaque: we can never know exactly the mind of
someone else. Yet humans continually attempt to 'read'the mental states of others and …