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Special Online Collection: Social Cognition

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Social CognitionIn its 7 September 2007 issue, Science explores the adaptive advantages of group life and the accompanying development of social skills. News articles examine clues from our primate cousins about the evolution of sophisticated social behavior and explorations of human behavior made possible by computer-generated realities. Review articles dissect the human capacity for prospection and the links between sociality and brain evolution and fitness. And related podcast segments highlight research on the social abilities of children and chimps and the value of virtual worlds to studies of social science.

In Science

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE

Living in Societies >
Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi, Andrew Sugden

NEWS

All Together Now--Pull! >
Greg Miller
Sanctuaries Aid Research and Vice Versa >
Greg Miller
The Promise of Parallel Universes >
Greg Miller
The Art of Virtual Persuasion >
Greg Miller

REVIEWS

Evolution in the Social Brain >
R. I. M. Dunbar, Susanne Shultz
Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups >
Joan B. Silk
Prospection: Experiencing the Future >
Daniel T. Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson

Also in this issue:

Editorial: The Brain/Education Barrier?
Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek and John T. Bruer

News: Nonhuman Primates Demonstrate Humanlike Reasoning
Elizabeth Pennisi

Letter: A Proposal for a Decade of the Mind Initiative
James S. Albus et al.

Books et al.: Baboon Metaphysics -- The Evolution of a Social Mind
D. L. Cheney and R. M. Seyfarth, reviewed by A. Jolly

Research Article: Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis
E. Herrmann et al.

Report: The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates
J. N. Wood, D. D. Glynn, B. C. Phillips, M. D. Hauser

Video Extra

Science Podcast host Robert Frederick produced and narrates a video presentation on how social scientists are using online virtual worlds to explore problems in the science of social cognition. (Read Greg Miller's News article.)

On the Science Podcast

Two segments of the 7 September 2007 Science Podcast focus on how humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition, and how researchers are using electronic virtual worlds to explore problems in social psychology.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)