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Ruth Mace
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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
London
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By Eva Brandl, Emily H Emmott, Ruth Mace| Wiley Online Library Verified Sample We initially tested 126 ni-Vanuatu children (all Melanesian) on the 4-part Theory of Mind test battery. Some children (n = 3) were excluded because they chose to interrupt their testing session. The final sample included 123 participants (56 female) and ranged from 3.8 to 11.3 years (M = 7.63, SD = 1.89). The birthdates of 2 children were unknown; their ages were estimated based on the mean age of their class, rounded to one decimal. Following Strauss et al.
By Eva Brandl, Ruth Mace, Cecilia Heyes| Cambridge University Press & Assessment@ The alternative, cognitive gadget view suggests that cultural evolution, rather than genetic evolution, has played the dominant role in the emergence of human teaching. It proposes that the cognitive capacity to teach is assembled from ‘old parts’ during childhood through cultural learning – by observing and interacting with older children and adults as these experts exercise their more advanced capacity for teaching.
By Eva Brandl, Emily H Emmott, Ruth Mace| Wiley Online Library Verified Sample We initially tested 126 ni-Vanuatu children (all Melanesian) on the 4-part Theory of Mind test battery. Some children (n = 3) were excluded because they chose to interrupt their testing session. The final sample included 123 participants (56 female) and ranged from 3.8 to 11.3 years (M = 7.63, SD = 1.89). The birthdates of 2 children were unknown; their ages were estimated based on the mean age of their class, rounded to one decimal. Following Strauss et al.
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