What Makes Us Social?

Chris Frith and Uta Frith

Series Foreword vii
1 What Is Social Cognition? 1
I Cooperation--Benefits of Being with Others
2 Learning from Others 21
3 Mirrors in the Brain 35
4 Sharing Emotions 49
5 The We-Mode 67
6 Joint Action 81
II Competition--Difficulties of Being with Others
7 Predicting Behavior 95
8 Us and Them 111
9 Reputation and Trust 125
10 Mentalizing: The Competitive Heart of Social Cognition 141
11 The Dark Side 163
III Computation--A Hierarchical System of Prediction and Action 
12 Modeling the Social World: The Computational Approach 181
IV Culture--Sharing Experiences with Others and Modeling the Modelers
13 Signals from the Deep 207
14 Consciousness and Control 221
15 Making Decisions in Groups 237
16 Communicating and Sharing Meaning 255
17 The Power of Teaching 271
18 Culture and the Brain 285
19 Getting Along Together 301
Epilogue
20 Facing a Pandemic Can Bring Out the Good in Us 321
Acknowledgments 329
References 333
Index 391