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Theory of Mind varies in the accuracy, speed, and effort of mental state inferences, but can rapidly improve with practice

2024-11-05

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<p>Human social cognition is built on our capacity to think about other minds. Do people have a general capacity to infer the contents of other minds from observable behavior? Or is this capacity specialized for inferring certain mental states, while struggling with others? Using a novel paradigm, we tested people’s capacity to infer another person’s desires, beliefs, or visual experience across three logically eq...

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Literature Corpus work: 11d13e7e-292a-541c-b70d-216590f7f961
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w6f42

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