2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Understanding Other People
Published in:
Understanding Human Development
We human beings are a profoundly social species. We depend on others to survive the long period of helpless infancy that is the price of our high intelligence. And as we have seen in Part II, the knowledge, skills, strategies and style that make up that intelligence are, to an important extent, socially constructed through shared ideas and activities, observation, tuition and collaboration.