Mindreading and the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Altruistic Motivation

By Shaun Nichols. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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How psychopaths threaten moral rationalism: Is it irrational to be amoral? (2002, background): “Since psychopaths have a deficiency in their affective response to harm in others, this plausibly explains why they fail to treat harm norms as distinctive (Nichols 2001, forthcoming).”
Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Some have suggested that distress-related cues, particularly fearful expressions, play an important role in inhibiting antisocial behavior (Blair, 2001; Nichols, 2001; Price, 2004).”
Adult theory of mind, cooperation, Machiavellianism: The effect of mindreading on social relations (2007, background): “Researchers seem to agree that prosocial behavior patterns are based on the capacity to feel empathy (Nichols, 2001).”
Empathizing and systemizing in males, females and autism: A test of the neural competition theory (2007, unknown): “Possible constituent fractions include Cognitive Empathy (CE) (attributions about other’s mental states); Emotional Contagion (EC) (‘the tendency to automatically mimic and synchronise facial expressions, vocalizations, postures and movements with those of another person, and, consequently, to conve”
The Mad, the Bad, and the Psychopath (2008, background): “distinguish experimentally. Nichols [ 56 ] has argued that no current experiments supporting empathy’s or sympathy’s role in altruistic motivation succeed in distinguishing between the two.”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “The speculation frequently made that Machiavellians display stronger ToM skills thus appears to be unfounded (cf., langdon, 2003; Nichols, 2001; Paal & Bereczkei, 2007), and conclusions drawn from the modest, mixed results based on self-report research, finding that Machiavellians score lower on…”
The influence of the fear facial expression on prosocial responding (2007, background): “The correct identification of another’s distress is thought to ‘‘trigger an affective response that generates the motivation to help a person in distress’’ (Nichols, 2001, p. 444).”