Dimensions of Mind Perception

By H. Gray, Kurt Gray, Daniel M. Wegner. 2007

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

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What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, neutral): “Popular algorithms for approximate inference in probabilistic machine learning have been proposed as psychological models (see Griffiths et al. [2012] for a review).”
Understanding perception of algorithmic decisions: Fairness, trust, and emotion in response to algorithmic management (2018, background): “On the other hand, research on bots and robot suggests that people may perceive computational systems as having less agency and emotional capability than humans (Gray et al., 2007; Gray and Wegner, 2012; Waytz and Norton, 2014).”
9 Perceiving Animacy and Intentionality: Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment? (2013, background): “For example, recent years have seen the growth of " mind perception " as a distinct area of study, with review articles and even entire laboratories so named (e.g. Gray et al., 2007; for a review see Waytz et al., 2010).”
Almost human: Anthropomorphism increases trust resilience in cognitive agents. (2016, background): “org/10.1518/ 001872006777724408 Manzey, D., Reichenbach, J., & Onnasch, L. (2012). Human performance consequences of automated decision aids: The impact of degree of automation and system experience. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 6, 57–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555343411”
Group membership alters the threshold for mind perception: The role of social identity, collective identification, and intergroup threat (2014, background): “…about the degree and kind of an entity's mental state capacities (e.g., the extent to which an entity is capable of feeling emotions or thinking; Gray et al., 2007), and theory of mind, which involves the attribution of mental content to a mind (e.g., attributing a specific belief or emotion to…”
When Humanizing Brands Goes Wrong: The Detrimental Effect of Brand Anthropomorphization amid Product Wrongdoings (2013, background): “For example, Gray, Gray, and Wegner (2007) show that greater attributions of mindfulness to nonhuman entities correlate with liking for the entity and a desire to protect it and make it happy.”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “Respondents evaluated both the mental capacities of diverse targets (e.g., adult humans, babies, animals, God) and their moral standing (Gray et al., 2007).”
Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves (2017, neutral): “, hunger, fear, pain, pleasure, rage, desire, personality, consciousness, pride, embarrassment, and joy) (Gray et al. 2007).”
The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species (2015, background): “Gray et al. (2007) found that living beings that are thought to experience emotions, including the capacity to feel pleasure and pain, are more likely to be attributed with moral rights.”
A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks (2015, background): “…also explain why people consider Black juveniles to be more ‘‘adult’’ than White juveniles when judging culpability (Rattan, Levine, Dweck, & Eberhardt, 2012); perhaps people attribute enhanced agency to Blacks thereby judging them more culpable than Whites for their actions (Gray et al., 2007).”