Other minds: how humans bridge the divide between self and others

Abstract

Part 1. Questions About the Phenomenon. L.J. Moses, Executive Functioning and Children's Theories of Mind. B.F. Malle, Three Puzzles of Mindreading. M.H. Davis, A Constituent Approach to the Study of Perspective Taking: What Are its Fundamental Elements? D.D. Hutto, Starting Without Theory: Confronting the Paradox of Conceptual Development. Part 2. Reading Behavior, Reading Minds. D. Fernandez-Duque, J.A. Baird, Is There a Social Brain? Lessons From Eye-Gaze Following, Joint Attention, and Autism. S.R. Fussell, R.E. Kraut, D. Gergle, L.D. Setlock, Visual Cues as Evidence of Others' Minds in Collaborative Physical Tasks. G.D. Reeder, D. Trafimow, Attributing Motives to Other People. S.J. Read, L.C. Miller, Explanatory Coherence and Goal-based Knowledge Structures in Making Dispositional Inferences. Part 3. Reading One's Own Mind, Reading Other Minds. J. Decety, Perspective Taking as the Royal Avenue to Empathy. D.R. Ames, Everyday Solutions to the Problem of Other Minds: Which Tools Are Used When? J. Perner, A. Kuhberger, Mental Simulation: Royal Road to Other Minds? R.J. Bogdan, Why Self-ascriptions Are Difficult and Develop Late. Part 4. Language and Other Minds. J.W. Astington, E. Filippova, Language as the Route into Other Minds. M. Barker, T. Givon, Representation of the Interlocutor's Mind During Conversation. M.F. Schober, Conceptual Alignment in Conversation. J.S. Uleman, On the Inherent Ambiguity of Traits and Other Mental Concepts. Part 5. Limits of Mindreading. D.J. Barr, B. Keysar, Mindreading in an Exotic Case: The Normal Adult Human. L. Van Boven, G. Loewenstein, Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking. S.D. Hodges, Is How Much You Understand Me in Your Head or Mine? W. Ickes, J.A. Simpson, M. Orina, Empathic Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Close Relationships. R. Langdon, Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia.