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Toward a Formalization of Human Intuitive Theories of Bodily Pain

2026-07-25

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<p>Pain is a private, subjective experience, yet observers routinely make consequential judgments about another person’s pain (e.g., whether it warrants treatment, accommodation, or whether it’s real at all). How do observers make these judgments? We propose that people attribute pain through an intuitive theory—the same kind of theory they use to infer other hidden mental and physical states. We explore the struc...

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Literature Corpus work: 31236c12-9691-5f7d-a0eb-456e83b96038
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/sb2jz_v1

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