Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject’s assertion that p matches her nonverbalbehavior) a necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data fromover 5,000 people across 26samples, spanning 22 countries suggests that it is not.Given the surprising cross-cultural robustnessof our findings, we argue that the types of evidence for the ascription of a belief are, at least insome circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and whenan 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 folkpsychology.
Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing / Rose, D; Machery, E; Stich, S; Alai, M; Angelucci, A; Berniūnas, R; Buchtel, E E; Chatterjee, A; Cheon, H; Cho, I-R; Cohnitz, D; Cova, F; Dranseika, V; Lagos, Á E; Ghadakpour, L; Grinberg, M; Hannikainen, I; Hashimoto, T; Horowitz, A; Hristova, E; Jraissati, Y; Kadreva, V; Karasawa, K; Kim, H; Kim, Y; Lee, M; Mauro, C; Mizumoto, M; Moruzzi, S; Olivola, C Y; Ornelas, J; Osimani, B; Romero, C; Rosas, A; Sangoi, M; Sereni, A; Songhorian, S; Sousa, P; Struchiner, N; Tripodi, V; Usui, N; Vázquez del Mercado, A V; Volpe, G; Vosgerichian, H A; Zhang, X; Zhu, J. - In: THOUGHT. - ISSN 2161-2234. - 6:(2017), pp. 193-203. [doi:10.1002/tht3.248]
Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing
Songhorian S;
2017-01-01
Abstract
Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject’s assertion that p matches her nonverbalbehavior) a necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data fromover 5,000 people across 26samples, spanning 22 countries suggests that it is not.Given the surprising cross-cultural robustnessof our findings, we argue that the types of evidence for the ascription of a belief are, at least insome circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and whenan 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 folkpsychology.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
