Special Issue on social contingency

• The focus of the issue is the mechanisms through which social contingency affect learning and the scope of this influence (e.g., domains of knowledge, levels at which effects manifest).

• The goals of the special issue on social contingency are: 

  1. 1. Synthesize this work insights from past and current work, 

     2. Identify gaps in our knowledge, and 

     3. Propose new direcrtions of research.

• The special issue will include a mix of empirical, opinion, and review pieces.

• The issue will cover work conducted in a wide set of disciplines, including, but not limited to: 

  1. 1. Animal communication

     2. Social robotics

     3. Neuroscience

     4. Language and communicative development

     5. Social development

     6. Philosophy and anthropology

     7. Clinical psychology

Please contact us if you would like to learn more or to contribute a paper (you are welcome to propose a paper here). 

A working document for members of the Consortium and contributors is available here.