How the Mind Explains Behavior: Folk Explanations, Meaning, and Social Interaction

By Bertram F. Malle. 2004

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, methodology): “Of all of the work outlined in this section, it is clear that Malle’s model, culminating in his 2004 text book [80], is the most mature and complete model of social attribution to date.”
Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences (2021, background): “One of them is Malle’s theory of explanation [72], which breaks the generation of explanations into two distinct and co-influencing groups of psychological process: 1) Information processes for the explainer (i.”
Moral competence in social robots (2014, background): “Explaining immoral behaviors, the second important moral communication capacity, is directly derived from explaining behaviors in general, which is relatively well understood in psychology [67], [68].”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “These new developments complement large but focused literatures in social psychology (e.g., Anderson, Krull, & Weiner, 1996; Heider, 1958; Malle, 2004), education (e.g., Chi, 2000; Roscoe &Chi, 2008), and philosophy (e.g., Salmon, 1989; Woodward, 2010), which have respectively emphasized…”
A decision network account of reasoning about other people's choices. (2015, background): “For example, the most natural explanation for why Alice chose black in the die-rolling game is that Alice wanted the reward and chose the color that earned her the reward (see Malle, 1999, 2004).”
When Mental States Matter, When They Don't, and What That Means for Morality (2013, background): “We focus instead on transient mental states, such as beliefs (which are internal) about the situation (which is external; Malle, 1999, 2004; Malle et al., 2000; Young & Saxe, 2010).”
How Quick Decisions Illuminate Moral Character (2013, background): “We therefore included measures of perceived motives, to see if decision certainty influenced moral evaluation because it suggested the agent’s motives were purely good or bad when decisions were made quickly, but that motives were mixed when the decision took longer (see Malle, 2004).”
Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Biology: A Developmental Analysis (2008, background): “The causal status of proximate causes and that of the more distal reasons (or purpose) for a behavior or event has been the subject of much philosophical and psychological debate (e.g., Malle, 2004; Sehon 2005).”
Explainable AI for Designers: A Human-Centered Perspective on Mixed-Initiative Co-Creation (2018, background): “Measuring trust in machines is a complex issue and still an active area of research in psychology [23].”
Toward a Theory of Motivational Interviewing (2009, background): “Further study of the nature and patterning of client responses, as well as of the manner in which intentionality is coded and decoded in everyday conversations (Malle, 2004), may lead to more reliable markers of dissimulation and intentionality toward behavior change.”
Theory of mind as inverse reinforcement learning (2019, background): “Beyond its practical usefulness, this approach may provide a cognitively-plausible theory that resembles the dichotomy between fast automatic agency detection [58– 60] and richer but slower mental-state reasoning in humans [61,53,17].”