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Thinking about thinking through inverse reasoning

2021-05-20

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<p>Human Theory of Mind enables us to attribute mental states like beliefs and desires based on how other people act. However, in many social interactions (particularly ones that lack observable action), people also directly think about other people's thinking. Here we present a computational framework, Bayesian inverse reasoning, for thinking about other people's thoughts. Our framework formalizes inferences abou...

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Literature Corpus work: 39f269af-34e3-5f34-8a80-a2e629e41a8f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/r25qn

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