title: Self-awareness and the evolution of social intelligence.
abstract: The use of one's own experience as a model to make inferences about the experiences of others is theorized to be the means by which a variety of introspectively based social strategies developed for both competing and cooperating with one another (e.g. gratitude, grudging, sympathy, empathy, deception, pretending and sorrow). The proposition that this ability is a byproduct of self-awareness is developed in some detail and the predictions which follow from this model of social intelligence are considered in light of the evidence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Gallup