Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

This article argues that consciousness has a logically sound, explanatory framework,
different from typical accounts that suffer from hidden mysticism. The article has three main …

“A first-class intellectual adventure.”—Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time
Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema …

Here we examine how people's understanding of consciousness may have been shaped by
an implicit theory of mind. This social cognition approach may help to make sense of an …

Humans and other animals possess the remarkable ability to effectively navigate a shared
perceptual environment by discerning which objects and spaces are perceived by others …

As social animals, people are highly sensitive to the attention of others. Seeing someone
else gaze at an object automatically draws one's own attention to that object. Monitoring the …

Suppose you are surreptitiously looking at someone, and then when they catch you staring
at them, you immediately turn away. This is a social phenomenon that almost everyone …

This paper empirically raises and examines the question of 'conceptual control': To what
extent are competent thinkers able to reason properly with new senses of words? This …

Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining
teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental …

Social group influence plays an important role in societally relevant phenomena such as
rioting and mass panic. One way through which groups influence individuals is by directing …