Infant contributions to joint attention predict vocabulary development
Harris, A.J.L. and Shah, P. and Catmur, C. and Bird, Geoffrey and Hahn, Ulrike (2013) Infant contributions to joint attention predict vocabulary development. In: Knauff, M. and Pauen, M. and Sebanz, N. and Wachsmuth, I. (eds.) Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin. Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3384-3389. ISBN 9780976831891.
Abstract
The conclusion that people are optimistic concerning personal risk does not have a sound evidential basis. Following Harris and Hahn’s (2011) critique of unrealistic optimism research, we consider the evidence from a recent series of high profile neuroscience papers. We demonstrate that the methods used are fundamentally flawed. A simulation and an empirical comparison of autism spectrum condition participants with typical adults confirm that we have learnt nothing about optimism from these studies.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | optimism, human rationality, belief updating, statistical artifact |
| School: | School of Science > Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Knowledge Lab |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2015 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2016 13:39 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12309 |
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