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Modeling the Predictive Social Mind
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The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting other people. However, social cognition researchers have only just scratched the surface of the predictive social mind. Here we discuss a new framework for explaining how people organize social knowledge and use it for social prediction. Specifically, we propose a multi-layered framework of social cognition, where two hidden layers – others’ mental states and traits – support predictions about the observable layer – others’ actions. A parsimonious set of psychological dimensions structures each layer, and proximity within and across layers guides social prediction. This simple framework formalizes longstanding intuitions from social cognition, and in doing so, offers a generative model for deriving new hypotheses about predictive social cognition.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tamir, D. I., & Thornton, M. A.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 201-212
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2783339056
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 60
- FWCI
- 4.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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