Principles of belief acquisition. How we read other minds.
Conscious Cogn
; 117: 103625, 2024 01.
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ABSTRACT
Reading other minds is a pervasive feature of human social life. A decade of research indicates that people can automatically track an agent's beliefs regardless of whether this is required. But little is known about the principles t guide automatic belief tracking. In six experiments adapting a false belief task introduced by Kovács et al. (2010), we tested whether belief tracking is interrupted by either an agent's lack of perceptual access or else by an agent's constrained action possibilities. We also tested whether such manipulations create interruptions when participants were instructed to track beliefs. Our main finding:
the agent's lack of perceptual access did not interrupt belief tracking when participants were not instructed to track beliefs. Overall, our findings raise a challenge some of the phenomena that have been labelled mindreading are perhaps not mindreading at all, or-more likely-they are mindreading but not as we know it.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Teoria da Mente
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Humans
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En
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Conscious Cogn
Assunto da revista:
PSICOFISIOLOGIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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