The function of folk psychology: mind reading or mind shaping?

By Tad Zawidzki. 2008

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1e8c280df2dbb3340072b99a9779cf0cf910db28

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Victoria McGeer
2. Uwe Peters

In Social Psychology

1. Victoria McGeer
2. Uwe Peters

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Victoria McGeer
2. Uwe Peters

Citations in the corpus

• Mind-making practices: the social infrastructure of self-knowing agency and responsibility (2015, background): ““I can’t talk to you any more about this unless you put your biases to one side and really consider the evidence”) (for further discussion, see McGeer 2007; Zawidzki 2008).”
• What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, background): “Since we live in an almost continuous flow of interactions with conspecifics, “solving problems of coordination with our fellows is [one of] our most pressing ecological tasks” (Zawidzki 2008: 198).”