The Social Mind Summer School

The Traits That Make Up Human-beings Unique
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150706-the-small-list-of-things-that-make-humans-unique


What Makes Humans Unique? (III) Self-domestication, Social Cognition, and Physical Cognition
http://www.replicatedtypo.com/what-makes-humans-unique-iii-self-domestication-social-cognition-and-physical-cognition/1464.html

How Are Humans Unique?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html?_r=0

Conformity Is Unique To Humans, Integral In Most Social Interactions, And It Begins As Early As 2 Years Old

http://www.medicaldaily.com/conformity-unique-humans-integral-most-social-interactions-and-it-begins-early-2-years-old-308886

Things unique to humans
http://www.metaprimate.com/unique-to-human/

Redefine Intelligence
http://upliftconnect.com/humans-arent-intelligent-creatures-planet/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/humans-smartest-animal.htm



http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(10)00181-9?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627310001819%3Fshowall%3Dtrue&cc=y=

What makes us, humans unique in the animal kingdom is our superior social skills. We are highly social creatures capable of empathy, compassion, justice, equality, cooperation and altruism, yet we are also capable of making unimaginable destruction for ourselves, be violent, discriminate the “others” and create wars and genocides. How can our ‘social minds’ differ in such drastic ways? How did we become social creatures in the first place and why are some people more socially skilled than others?