creators_name: Humphrey, Nicholas type: confpaper datestamp: 1999-04-26 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:18 metadata_visibility: show title: The Uses of Consciousness ispublished: pub subjects: bio-ani-cog subjects: comp-psy subjects: dev-psy subjects: evol-psy subjects: evol-psy subjects: phil-mind subjects: soc-psy full_text_status: public keywords: consciousness, theory of mind, social intelligence, Machiavellianism, human evolution abstract: Reflexive consciousness evolved in the context of early human social life, as a means by which 'natural psychologists' could develop working models of their own and others' minds. date: 1987 date_type: published publisher: American Museum of Natural History, New York pagerange: 1-25 refereed: FALSE citation: Humphrey, Nicholas (1987) The Uses of Consciousness. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/809/1/jalect.htm