Mosaic of Minds

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What is joint attention, and are we defining it wrong?

What is joint attention, and are we defining it wrong?

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Emily M
Mar 07, 2022
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What is joint attention, and are we defining it wrong?
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[This post is a slightly edited version of an 11/2014 post from this blog’s Blogspot predecessor].

Most humans have an important skill: the ability to share attention. That is, they can pay attention to the same thing, knowing that the other person is also attending to and thinking about it.

The ability to share attention with another person enables all s…

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