project

Developmental and Cross-Cultural Research on Social Cognition

Theory of Mind, Emotions, Creativity, Pretend Play

Intro

We focus on ToM, Mindreading, Social Cognition

 

In our research, we focus on ToM, Mindreading, Social Cognition – particularly we are interested in the impact of culture on mindreading activity and social interactions. We also research issues related to pretend play and creativity as well as children’s understanding of emotions. We do numerous empirical studies, but at the same time we strive to build a theory of social cognition that accommodates the key involvement of culture in the development of mindreading and social cognition.

Team

Arkadiusz Gut
Monika Dunin-Kozicka (Chylińska)
Robert Mirski
Krystian Macheta
Natalia Reszuta
Jakub Janczura
Anna Pietryga
Joanna Afek

Cooparation

Prof. Maciej Haman (Warsaw University)
Prof. Him Cheung (Education University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Marta Białecka-Pikul (Jagiellonian University)
Prof. Francesco Pons (Oslo University)

Support

HARMONIA 6, NCN, (UMO-2014/14/M/HS1/00436 for years) the research project entitled “The involvement of language, culture-specific factors and folk intuitions in mind-reading activity and social cognition”. founded by National Science Centre, Poland in collaboration with the Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Organized conferences

Cultural and environmental factors in socio-cognitive development

22-23/11/2018

Program

22/11/2018
Thursday, Room CTW-220

  • 11:00 | prof. Monika Walczak (Dean of the Philosophy Department, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) – Opening
  • 11:15 | Marco Fenici (Bilkent University, Turkey) – Constructing a Theory of Mind: A Socio-cultural Approach
  • 12:30 | A. Gut, Him Cheung, O. Gorbaniuk, K. Macheta. R. Mirski, with the support of Cognitive Science students of KUL (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Pedagogical University of Cracow Poland; Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) – Short report. Does culture shape epistemic understanding of minds: a comparative study of Hong Kong and Poland
  • 14:30 | Zuzanna Rucińska (University of Antwerp, Belgium) – Social play without mindreading
  • 15:30 | Marcin Trybulec (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland) – Why cognitive artifacts should sometimes make the task more difficult? The case of metacognition
  • 16:45 | Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz (Warsaw University) – Linguistification of the Knobe Effect: intentionality, semantics and cognition
  • 17:30 | Tik-Sze Carrey SIU, Monika Chylińska, Nastazja Stoch and Arkadiusz Gut, Oleg Gorbaniuk  (The Education University of Hong Kong, China; The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) – The implicit concept of creativity: A comperative study of Hong Kong, Mainland China and Poland
  • 18:15 | Poster Session. Presenters: Adrianna Smurzyńska, Chinedu Ezewoko, Claire Zhenxu Fan, Clara Goebel, Joanna Klara Teske, Karina Ozga, Katarzyna Karska, Krystian Macheta, Maria Kierepka, Michał Obidziński, Monika Pietrzak, Nastazja Stoch, Renata Łukiewicz-Kostro, Salih Bartuğ Çelik, Zbigniew Wróblewski, Anna Dutkowska, Andrzej Zykubek

23/11/2018

Friday, Room GG-208

  • 09:00 | Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman (Warsaw University) – Epistemic Side-Effect Effect: Belief or Consequence
  • 10:00 | Jedediah WP Allen (Bilkent University, Turkey) – iToM: An Explicit Action-Based Approach for an Implicit Theory of Mind
  • 11:35 | Arkadiusz Białek, Anna Filip, Marta Białecka-Pikul (Jagiellonian University) – Communication Repair and its Role in Theory of Mind development
  • 12:20 | Anna Kamza and Adam Putko (University of Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty in Poznan; Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) – Attachment and inhibitory control in middle childhood: mediating role of verbal ability 45 min.
  • 13:35 | Agnieszka Pluta, Małgorzata Zgoda, Joanna Wysocka, Karolina Golec, Maciej Haman (Warsaw University, Poland) – False belief understanding in oral deaf children with cochlear implants
  • 14:20 | Piotr Konderak – Language in extended cognition and amalgamated cognition
  • 15:05 | Closing & Lunch

Organized conferences

Understanding Social Cognition. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Special Session on Mindreading

20-22/10/2017

W ramach organizowanej w dniach 20-22 października 2017 r. III Konferencji Avant. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies pt. Understanding Social Cognition Wydział Filozofii i Kognitywistyka KUL zorganizowały w sobotę, 21 października 2017 r., specjalną konferencję poświęconą mindreadingowi.

Special Session on Mindreading

Wśród zaproszonych gości konferencji znaleźli się: Francisco Pons, Arkadiusz Gut, Małgorzata Stępień-Nycz, Marta Białecka-Pikul, Albert Newen, Tik-Sze Carrey Siu, Him Cheung, Maciej Haman, Agnieszka Pluta, Marta Białecka-Pikul, Arkadiusz Białek, Magdalena Kosno, Julia Wolf, Joanna Klara Teske.

Special Session on Mindreading

FIRST PART 10.45-13.00   |   CINEMA HALL  |   LEVEL -1

  • Arkadiusz Gut, Him Cheung ˗ Theory of mind and culture. Introduction
  • Francisco Pons ˗ Teaching emotion understanding
  • Małgorzata Stępień-Nycz, Marta Białecka-Pikul ˗ Test of emotion comprehension: the Polish adaptation
  • Albert Newen ˗ Person Model Theory of Understanding Others: An alternative account
  • Robert Mirski ˗ Foundational problems with Bayesian inference models of the development of social cognition
  • Krystian Macheta, Arkadiusz Gut, Robert Mirski, Jakub Janczura ˗ Child’s emotion understanding: developmental trajectory
 

SECOND PART 15.15-17.45  |  MEDIA LIBRARY  |  LEVEL -1

  • Tik-Sze Carrey Siu, Him Cheung ˗ Developmental continuity in mental state understanding
  • Maciej Haman, Agnieszka Pluta ˗ Neurocognitive mechanisms of theory of mind development at the transition stage: Outline of a new fNIRS imaging project
  • Marta Białecka-Pikul, Arkadiusz Białek, Magdalena Kosno ˗ The role of the ability to point informatively in false belief understanding in 3 year olds
  • Julia Wolf ˗ False-belief understanding: cognitive and situational factors trigger the development
  • Joanna Klara Teske ˗ Literature, cognition and theory of mind
  • A discussion of M. Haman and A. Gut’s article ‘Children’s understanding of opacity’

 

Program do pobrania

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Posters/Conference Presentations

Media (photos i video)

Publications

1/ Gut Arkadiusz, Haman Maciej, Gorbaniuk Oleg, Chylińska Monika, The development of understanding opacity in preschoolers : a transition from a coarse- to fine-grained understanding of beliefs, Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 11, 2020; pp. 1-15; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00596/full

2/ Chylińska Monika, Gut Arkadiusz, (2020); Pretend play as a creative action : on the exploratory and evaluative features of children’s pretense. Theory & Psychology, Vol. 30; 2020; pp. 1-19; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959354320931594

3/ Mirski R. and Gut A. (2018/20), Action-based and Theory-of-Mind Perspectives on Socio-cognitive Development: Culture, Language and Social Experience within the Two Paradigms in: Synthese 2018/20  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-018-01976-y

4/ Gut Arkadiusz, Afek Joanna, Kołodziej Beata, (2020), Chinese mothers’ reflections on value systems and social norms enacted in fairy tales : a cultural narrative analysis. Roczniki Humanistyczne, T. 68 z. 9; 2020; pp. 157-183, https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/article/view/13483/13122

5/ Gut A., Mirski R., (2018) Language as a Necessary Condition for Complex Mental Content: A Review of the Discussion on Spatial and Mathematical Thinking, Annals of Philosophy (Roczniki Filozoficzne) Tom LXVI, n. 3, Special Edition: Philosophy and Cognitive Science, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rf.2018.66.3-2, pp. 33-56.

6/ Fijołek B., Afek J., D.K. Harrold, Gut A., (2018),  Społeczno-kulturowe uwarunkowania narracji wychowawczych: analiza eksploracyjna wypowiedzi matek chińskich, Roczniki HumansityczneTom LXVI, 9 – 2018, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2018.66.9-7, pp. 139-161.

7/ Gut A.; Afek J., (2017), The Chinese Model of Early Education From the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Psychological Research, (pol. O chińskim modelu wczesnej edukacji dziecięcej w kontekście międzykulturowych badań psychologicznych), in: Roczniki Humanistyczne, Vol: LXV; n.1, pp. 5-28 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2017.65.9-1.

8/ Gut A., Mirski R., (2016) In Search of a Theory: The Interpretative Challenge of Empirical Findings on Cultural Variance in Mindreading” in: Studies in Logic and Grammar and Rhetoric,  48(61) 2016, https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.1515/slgr-2016-0063

9/ Gut A. (2016), Badania rozwojowe i kognitywne nad czytaniem umysłu w: Przewodnik po Kognitywistyce (red. J. Bremer), WAM, Kraków, s. 715-758. https://mind.kul.pl/projects/badania-rozwojowe-i-kognitywne-nad-czytaniem-umyslu

10/ Haman M., Gut A., (2016), Wiedza wrodzona, w: Przewodnik po Kognitywistyce (red. J. Bremer), WAM, Kraków, s. 655-710. https://wydawnictwowam.pl/sites/default/files/70645_skrot.pdf

11/ Gut A., Moszyńska M., Reszuta N., (2019) Who Is a Creative Person? Conceptualisation of creativity by people with autism spectrum disorder. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 27, Poznań 2019. pp. 373–387. Adam Mickiewicz University Press

12/ Gut A., (2018) Opacity as a distinctive feature of the mind (Nieprzezroczystość jako dystynktywna cecha umysłu) in: Filozof w krainie umysłów, red.  Króliczak et.al Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Nauk Społecznych UAM, 2018.pp. 129-148 (in polish)

13/ Gut A.; Afek J., (2017), The Chinese Model of Early Education From the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Psychological Research, (pol. O chińskim modelu wczesnej edukacji dziecięcej w kontekście międzykulturowych badań psychologicznych), in: Roczniki Humanistyczne, Vol: LXV; n.1, pp. 5-28 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2017.65.9-1.

14/ Gut A., Wilczewski M. (2016) “The role of language in the emergence of mature belief reasoning” in: M. Hinton (ed.) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, Peter Lang – International Academic Publisher, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, p. 209-238.

15/ Gut, A., Wilczewski M., (2015) Is mindreading universal or cultural specific construct? W: G. Airenti, B. G. Bara, G. Sandini, M. Cruciani (eds.) Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science  Volume 1419 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2015. [doi], s. 499-505 ISSN 16130073

16/  Gut A., (2015) Na czym polega specyficzny mindreading? w: (red.) Gut A., Wróblewski Z. W poszukiwaniu osobliwości natury ludzkiej, Wydawnictwo KUL. Lublin, s. 59-89.