Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to imbue the real or imagined behavior of
nonhuman agents with humanlike characteristics, motivations, intentions, or emotions …

One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people's information
processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and …

Taking another person's perspective is widely presumed to increase interpersonal
understanding. Very few experiments, however, have actually tested whether perspective …

From failures of intelligence analysis to misguided beliefs about vaccinations, biased
judgment and decision making contributes to problems in policy, business, medicine, law …

Early language exposure is essential to develo** a formal language system, but may not
be sufficient for communicating effectively. To understand a speaker's intention, one must …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

Theory of mind, or" mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about
beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by …

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly,
we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves …

The authors propose that people adopt others' perspectives by serially adjusting from their
own. As predicted, estimates of others' perceptions were consistent with one's own but …