%0 Journal Article
%A Tomasello, Michael
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T The role of roles in uniquely human cognition and sociality : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-94E3-4
%R 10.1111/jtsb.12223
%D 2020
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Abstract To understand themselves as playing a social role, individuals must understand themselves to be contributing to a cooperative endeavor. Psychologically, the form of cooperation required is a specific type that only humans may possess, namely, one in which individuals form a joint or collective agency to pursue a common end. This begins ontogenetically not with the societal level but rather with more local collaboration between individuals. Participating in collaborative endeavors of this type leads young children, cognitively, to think in terms of different perspectives on a joint focus of attention
%K Cooperation, Culture, Mead, Shared intentionality, Social roles
%J Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
%V 50
%N 1
%& 2
%P 2 - 19
%I Wiley
%@ 0021-8308