We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

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Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the
risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM) broadly refers to humans' ability to represent the mental
states of others, including their desires, beliefs, and intentions. We design a Theory of Mind …

The lack of consensus on how to characterize humans' capacity for belief reasoning has
been brought into sharp focus by recent research. Children fail critical tests of belief …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

Human social interactions crucially depend on the ability to represent other agents' beliefs
even when these contradict our own beliefs, leading to the potentially complex problem of …

Humans operate with a “theory of mind” with which they are able to understand that others'
actions are driven not by reality but by beliefs about reality, even when those beliefs are …