Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Role of Shared Experience in Parenting
Two-year-old children will believe an adult and respond to the adult much more than they will to another two-year-olds. They recognize that that guy is as incompetent as I am when there's another little toddler going around, todling around. So do you think they get that innately or do they find out in some kind of trial and error process? "I think probably a little bit of both," he says.
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