Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis.
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Nicholas Humphrey's social intelligence hypothesis proposed that the major engine of primate cognitive evolution was social competition. Lev Vygotsky also emphasized the social dimension of intelligence, but he focused on human primates and cultural things such as collaboration, communication and teaching. A reasonable proposal is that primate cognition in general was driven mainly by social competition, but beyond that the unique aspects of human cognition were driven by, or even constituted by, social cooperation. In the present paper, we provide evidence for this Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis by comparing the social-cognitive skills of great apes with those of young human children in several domains of activity involving cooperation and communication with others. We argue, finally, that regular participation in cooperative, cultural interactions during ontogeny leads children to construct uniquely powerful forms of perspectival cognitive representation.
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- Authors
- Moll, H., & Tomasello, M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2007-02-12
- Volume
- 362
- Issue
- 1480
- Pages
- 639-648
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC2346522
- OpenAlex
- W1978833986
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 73 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 3.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- social cooperation, social intelligence hypothesis, social competition, great apes, children, ontogeny, cultural evolution, communication, teaching, Vygotsky
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Child, Cognition, Communication, Cooperative Behavior, Biological Evolution, Humans, Intelligence, Models, Biological, Hominidae
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