Understanding others' minds has puzzled philosophers for centuries. Psychologists, too,
have recently begun asking questions about what causes us to see another person as …

People seem to have access to the workings of their own minds but not to the workings of
other minds. Philosophically speaking, this is supposed to create a problem for us. Because …

Recent research has demonstrated that ascribing minds to humanlike stimuli is a product of
both their perceptual similarity to human faces and whether they engaged configural face …

Perceiving others' minds is a crucial component of social life. People do not, however,
always ascribe minds to other people, and sometimes ascribe minds to non-people (eg God …

Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect
minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current …

To navigate successfully in the social environment, we need to be able to understand and
predict other people's behavior so that we can respond appropriately. One way by which we …

The human ability to make inferences about the minds of conspecifics is remarkable. The
majority of work in this area focuses on mental state representation ('theory of mind'), but has …

According to the perceptual model, our knowledge of others' minds is a form of perceptual
knowledge. We know, for example, that Jones is angry because we can literally see that he …

Abstract Eight studies (N= 2,561) reveal that how we perceptually process a person's face
affects our capacity to understand their mind. Studies 1A and B indicate this relationship …

The human face provides a wealth of information about others, including both situationally
invariant information such as facial identity and social categories and situationally variable …