📣 New paper in Open Mind! How do our concepts of others’ minds connect to language and to where we expect others to look? 🤔
We link phenomenal vs. intentional mental states to gaze, one of our earliest social cues from infancy.
Led by Mohit Mukherji! 🎉
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Descriptions of Phenomenal Versus Intentional Mental States Are Differentially Associated With Gaze Direction
Abstract. Across cultures, humans reason about others’ mental states as being either phenomenal, reflecting shareable experiences, or intentional, reflecting agentive goals. Might our dissociated judg...