RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1037/xge0000704
A1 Conway, Jane
A1 Coll, Michel-Pierre
A1 Cuve, Helio Clemente
A1 Koletsi, Sofia
A1 Bronitt, Nicholas
A1 Catmur, Caroline
A1 Bird, Geoffrey
T1 Understanding How Minds Vary Relates to Skill in Inferring Mental States, Personality, and Intelligence
JF Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
VO vol. 149
IS n° 6
SP 1032
OP 1047
AB 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 had limited success in explaining individual differences in this ability, and is characterized by the lack of a theoretical framework that can account for the effect of variability inthe population of minds to which individuals are exposed.We draw analogies between faces and minds as complex social stimuli, and suggest thattheoretical and empirical progress on understanding the mechanisms underlying mind representation can be achieved by adopting a ‘Mind-space’framework; that minds, like faces, are represented withina multidimensional psychological space. This Mind-space framework can accommodate the representation of whole cognitive systems, and may help to explain individual differences in the consistency and accuracy with which the mental states of others are inferred. Mind-space may also have relevance for understanding human development, inter-group relations, and the atypical socialcognitionseen in several clinical conditions.
PB Nelson Cowan
SN 0096-3445
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/34165/
UL http://iast.fr/pub/123538