Self-Awareness

Michel Ferrari , PhD , University of PittsburghRobert J. Sternberg ,PhD , Yale University.

• I. Definitions and Underpinnings of Self-Awareness1. The Mind and Education, Searle2. Consciousness and Self-Awareness, NatsoulasII. The Evolution of Self-Awareness3. When Self Met Other, Povinelli and Prince4. A Social Model for the Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Self-Conscious Emotions, ParkerIII. Development of Self-Awareness across the Lifespan5. Is There a Self in Infancy?, Kagan6. Inching toward a Mature Theory of Mind, Chandler and Carpendale7. Self-Awareness and Social Intelligence: Web Pages, Search Engines, and Navigational Control, Ford and Maher8. Personal Navigation, Sternberg and Spear-Swerling9. The Developing Self-System and Self-Regulation of Primary School Children, Bouffard and Vezeau10. The Brain, the Me, and the I, Pribram and Bradley11. Narrative and Metanarrative in the Construction of Self, Bruner and Kalmar12. The Development of Self through the Coordination of Component Systems, Mascolo and FischerIV. Integration and Conclusion13. Being and Becoming Self-Aware, Ferrari

An excellent introduction to the burgeoning field of research on the development of the self. Bringing together leaders in philosophy, comparative psychology, and developmental psychology, and carefully sequencing their contributions, the editors provide a fascinating road map to the complexities of self-awareness, its development, and its centrality in any discussion about human nature itself. -- Michael Cole, PhD, Communication Department and Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, La Jolla -