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Commentary: Intersubjectivity, interobjectivity, and the embryonic fallacy in developmental science

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Traditional research adopts the embryonic fallacy: the assumption that as soon as life begins, the individual becomes the source of psychological experiences. The embryonic fallacy has resulted in intersubjectivity being treated as ‘a problem’: how can each individual, the source of private experiences, understand the private experiences of ‘self-contained’ others? This ‘problem’ disappears when we recognize that intersubjectivity is regulated through interobjectivity: how individuals understand others arises out of the cultural collective in which they are socialized. The source of our understandings of others is ‘out there’ in the social world.

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Culture Psychology

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: sage publisher., 2010

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English

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1354067x

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Vol. 16 no. 4. December 2010.pp. 465-475

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intersubjectivity
Commentary: intersubjectivity, interobjectivity
Collective processes
Embryonic fallacy
Interobjectivity

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