How the Mind Explains Behavior [antikvár]

PrefaceThe ideas that found expression here were first inspired by Jerry Bruner's magnificent book Acts of Meaning and a seminar held by Fred Dretske and Michael Bratman at Stanford University on action explanation. Thereafter, nothing in the attribution literature meant quite the same for me again.Along the way, many people provided support, inspiration, and helped keep up my persistence: Laura Carstensen, Delia Cioffi, Herb Clark, Carol Dweck, Alison Gopnik, A1 Hastorf, Len Horowitz, Joshua Knobe, Lara London, Tom Lyon, A1 Mele, Ronaldo Mendoza, Walter Mischel, Lee Ross, Bernie Weiner, and H. G. Zilian. A1 Mele and Dan Ames read the entire manuscript, and Joshua Knobe most of it, and all offered invaluable observations, criticism, and suggestions. Many other people read portions of this book or some of its earlier installments and provided helpful feedback: Craig Anderson, Holly Arrow, Garth Fletcher, Dave Hamilton, Sara Hodges, John Mc-Clure, and Mick Rothbart. (I am sorry to those I am forgetting here; they made their mark nonetheless.) Without my collaborators over the years, too, this work would not have been possible: Dare Baldwin, Tom Givon, Bill Ickes, Shua Knobe, Lou Moses, Sarah Nelson, Gale Pearce, and Matt O'Laughlin. The Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the National Science Foundation, and Marilynn Brewer stepped in at opportune times when a boost in confidence was needed.This book was begun during a sabbatical leave from the University of Oregon in gorgeous New Zealand, in Garth Fletcher's house, surrounded by his generosity. It was continued during visits to Victoria University of Wellington (hosted by John McClure), Macquarie University, Sydney (Max Colt-heart), the University of Melbourne (Yoshi Kashima), Flinders University, Adelaide (Neil Brewer), and the Barossa Valley, where I reveled in Lynn and