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The Institutional Stance

2025-07-26

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<p>Human success in navigating the social world is typically attributed to our capacity to represent other minds—a mentalistic stance. We argue that humans are endowed with a second equally powerful intuitive theory: an institutional stance. In contrast to the mentalistic stance, which helps us predict and explain unconstrained behavior via unobservable mental states, the institutional stance interprets social int...

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Literature Corpus work: eff7e5a9-e225-53ec-a007-a769a03bd98b
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pefsx_v2

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