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Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing
- Authors
- Rose, David; Machery, Edouard; Stich, Stephen; Alai, Mario; Angelucci, Adriano; Berniunas, Renatas; Buchtel, Emma E.; Chatterjee, Amita; Cheon, Hyundeuk; Cho, In-Rae; Cohnitz, Daniel; Cova, Florian; Dranseika, Vilius; Erana Lagos, Angeles; Ghadakpour, Laleh; Grinberg, Maurice; Hannikainen, Ivar; Hashimoto, Takaaki; Horowitz, Amir; Hristova, Evgeniya; Jraissati, Yasmina; Kadreva, Veselina; Karasawa, Kaori; Kim, Hackjin; Kim, Yeonjeong; Lee, Minwoo; Mauro, Carlos; Mizumoto, Masaharu; Moruzzi, Sebastiano; Olivola, Christopher Y.; Ornelas, Jorge; Osimani, Barbara; Romero, Carlos; Rosas, Alejandro; Sangoi, Massimo; Sereni, Andrea; Songhorian, Sarah; Sousa, Paulo; Struchiner, Noel; Tripodi, Vera; Usui, Naoki; Vazquez del Mercado, Alejandro; Volpe, Giorgio; Vosgerichian, Hrag A.; Zhang, Xueyi; Zhu, Jing
- Issue Date
- Sep-2017
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- behavioral circumscription; folk psychology; belief; cross-cultural; delusions
- Citation
- THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, v.6, no.3, pp.193 - 203
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
- Volume
- 6
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 193
- End Page
- 203
- ISSN
- 2161-2234
- Abstract
- Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject's assertion that p matches her nonverbal behavior) a necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data from over 5,000 people across 26 samples, spanning 22 countries suggests that it is not. Given the surprising cross-cultural robustness of our findings, we argue that the types of evidence for the ascription of a belief are, at least in some circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and when an agent sincerely asserts that p, nonlinguistic behavioral evidence is disregarded. In light of this, we take ourselves to have discovered a universal principle governing the ascription of beliefs in folk psychology.
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- Kim, Hack jin
- School of Psychology (School of Psychology)