Questions tagged [theory-of-mind]
The ability to understand that others have mental states such as beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one's own.
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Why do people seem to think less effectively when being helped or watched?
I've noticed a recurring behavior in various technical settings conducted over Zoom, where screen sharing seems to induce a more passive cognitive state among participants. Whether in debugging ...
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Books to understand autism?
Are there any books for non-professionals to better understand autism? I would also accept a cheatsheet with things to do or remember. This does not need to be academically accepted, as it is for my ...
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recording a psychological state
We can record a picture with a camera and record a voice with a recorder. Then, how could we record a psychological state? If we can record it and then re-experience it, it will be helpful in studying ...
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Theory of mind (ToM) training?
As they mention in the paper "Training for generalization in Theory of Mind: a study with older adults", we still need to study more about the ways we can improve our theory of mind ability ...
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How many stories can the human brain discern? [closed]
Perhaps the question will seem strange and not clearly formulated, for which I apologize in advance. Are there estimates of how many stories the human mind can discern? For example, let each story be ...
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What is it called when the brain creates an alternative reality?
I recently heard of a phycological phenomenon where someone's brain can create its own ongoing reality. someone can go through a traumatic situation and their brain creates a whole new life without ...
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why we failed to convince our own mind by reasoning and rational arguments over mental illness like depression, anxiety, phobia?
For example, one of my friend has fear of heights, even if there is a strong glass window and no reason for him to fall off. He is even aware and admits his fear is irrational. Many may say it’s in ...
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Why does human mind tend to understand everything in terms of duality or binary states rather than continuum of states?
We can understand things much quickly when things are defined as a duality. Like good and bad, happy and sad, positive and negative, slow and fast etc. When two things are distinguishable distinctly ...
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How can I learn Integrated information Theory
I'm looking for a syllabus for Integrated Information Theory that could help a non-scientists learn all the fundamental concepts required to fully understand IIT It looks like it involves statistics, ...
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What is it called when you imagine what other people would say or do in a certain situation?
For example, some Christians say that to know how to act, we just need to "imagine how Jesus would act in this situation." The same goes for people we know personally, as in: "What will my boss say ...
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What are the thoughs of a blind and deaf person? [duplicate]
I've always asked myself of what are made the thoughs of a blind and deaf person... Are they made of concepts? Sensations? Ideas? Have we ever asked a blind and deaf person about that?
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Hypotheses about neural coding and neural correlates of concepts and reasoning - at the level of neurons and synapses
Are there some hypotheses about neural coding of language, concepts and logical reasoning in the brain, about neural correlates of thoughts? When I search the books, then I find lot of books about ...
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What does "The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world." refer to?
The late Dr. Carl Sagan is famous for many different contributions to both scientific research and science education. One memorable line is discussed in Are we really star-stuff from the interior of ...
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Are there any significant alternatives to the theory that the mind exists?
Are there any psychological models which do not presuppose the existence of the mind? In the same way that there are theories of physics which do not presuppose the existence of a luminiferous ...
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Is theory of mind formation accelerated by bilingualism?
Kovács (2009) reported that bilingual children were better at solving a false belief task critical to the fully developed theory of mind (ToM). Has this study been replicated or criticized by others? ...
