Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The biological and cultural nature of human awareness -- Human awareness as a developmental and cultural phenomenon -- The socio-biological nature of human awareness -- Animal awareness -- The cultural-historical nature of human awarenes -- Summary -- 2 Awareness of the feelings of other people -- Empathy in early childhood -- Research evidence of early empathy -- Methodological issues in the study of child empathy -- The nature of empathy: cognition and affect -- Empathy and related phenomena -- Modifiers of empathy -- Summary -- 3 Awareness of human agency -- People as perceivers and as perceived -- Awareness of actions and intentions -- Development of awareness of action -- The different perspectives of the perceiver and of the perceived in their awareness of action -- Language and awareness of action -- Summary -- 4 Self-awareness -- The I - the experiencer and agent -- The Me - the experienced -- The I and the Me as relational concept -- Mead's and Freud's theories of the self -- Self-awareness and related notions -- The growth of self-awareness -- The I and the Me in self-awareness research -- Can the I be studied empirically? -- Summary -- 5 Communicative awareness -- Communication as co-operation and the mutual adjustment of participants -- Synchrony and turn-taking in communication -- Regulation of a dialogue through turn-taking -- Modification of speech due to the speaker's other-awareness -- Contextualization and decontextualization -- Summary -- 6 The manipulative and aggressive self -- The search for social recognition -- The Me-strategies for recognition -- The I-strategies for recognition -- The machiavellian self -- Summary