Medical Xpress November 26, 2021
To successfully cooperate or compete with other people in everyday life, it is important to know what the other person thinks, feels, or wants. Dr. Julia Wolf, Dr. Sabrina Coninx and Professor Albert Newen from Institute of Philosophy II at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have explored which strategies people use to understand other people.
For a long time, it was assumed that people relied exclusively on a single strategy: Mind reading. This means that people infer the mental states of others solely based on their behavior. In more recent accounts, however, this ability has been relegated to the background. The Bochum-based team now argues that although people use a number of different strategies, mind reading also plays an important role. They present...
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