Theory of Mind in the Wild

A Royka, LR Santos - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Theory of Mind (ToM)—the ability to infer others' mental states—is a fundamental part of
human social cognition. For decades, researchers have studied whether nonhuman …

Quantitative mental state attributions in language understanding

J Jara-Ettinger, P Rubio-Fernandez - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Human social intelligence relies on our ability to infer other people's mental states such as
their beliefs, desires, and intentions. While people are proficient at mental state inference …

Action generalization across group members: Action efficiency matters

J Duan, Y Jiang, Y He, F Zhang, M Shen… - Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Actions are usually generalized among social group members. Importantly, the efficiency of
an action with respect to achieving an external target determines action understanding, and …