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Chapter 9 - Inferences about Others and Their Mental States

Prediction Involves Social Theories

from Part II - Psychological Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
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Summary

The social environment and our social experiences provide a rich source for social theories about the behavior of others. Important prerequisites are social knowledge about who people are on an individual and group level and the ability to attribute the behavior of others to their mental states, often called mind reading, mentalizing, or theory of mind.

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social predictionmentalizingtheory of mindmind readingautism
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The New Science of the Predictive Mind
 , pp. 86 - 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Corcoran, R., Mercer, G., & Frith, C. D. (1995). Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference: Investigating ‘theory of mind’ in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 17(1), 5–13.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sinha, P., Kjelgaard, M. M., Gandhi, T. K., Tsourides, K., Cardinaux, A. L., Pantazis, D., … & Held, R. M. (2014). Autism as a disorder of prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(42), 15220–15225.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(5), 675–691.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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