@article{1478348,
      recid = {1478348},
      author = {Reddy, Vasudevi, },
      title = {How Infants Know Minds /},
      pages = {1 online resource (288 p.)},
      abstract = {"Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a  "theory of mind"-some basic ideas about other people's  minds-at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and  logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are  unaware of minds? That they see other people simply as  another (rather dynamic and noisy) kind of object? This is  a common view in developmental psychology. Yet, as this  book explains, there is compelling evidence that babies in  the first year of life can tease, pretend, feel  self-conscious, and joke with people. Using observations  from infants' everyday interactions with their families,  Vasudevi Reddy argues that such early emotional engagements  show infants' growing awareness of other people's  attention, expectations, and intentions. Reddy deals with  the persistent problem of "other minds" by proposing a  "second-person" solution: we know other minds if we can  respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement  with them. She challenges psychology's traditional  "detached" stance toward understanding people, arguing that  the most fundamental way of knowing minds-both for babies  and for adults-is through engagement with them. According  to this argument the starting point for understanding other  minds is not isolation and ignorance but emotional  relation."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478348},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033887},
}