Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing

David Rose; Edouard Machery; Stephen Stich; Mario Alai; Adriano Angelucci; Renatas Berniūnas; Emma E. Buchtel; Amita Chatterjee; Hyundeuk Cheon; In Rae Cho; Daniel Cohnitz; Florian Cova; Vilius Dranseika; Ángeles Eraña Lagos; Laleh Ghadakpour; Maurice Grinberg; Ivar Hannikainen; Takaaki Hashimoto; Amir Horowitz; Evgeniya Hristova; Yasmina Jraissati; Veselina Kadreva; Kaori Karasawa; Hackjin Kim; Yeonjeong Kim; Minwoo Lee; Carlos Mauro; Masaharu Mizumoto; Sebastiano Moruzzi; Christopher Y. Olivola; Jorge Ornelas; Barbara Osimani; Carlos Romero; Alejandro Rosas; Massimo Sangoi; Andrea Sereni; Sarah Songhorian; Paulo Sousa; Noel Struchiner; Vera Tripodi; Naoki Usui; Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado; Giorgio Volpe; Hrag A. Vosgerichian; Xueyi Zhang; Jing Zhu

doi:10.1002/tht3.248

Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing

David Rose, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, Mario Alai, Adriano Angelucci, Renatas Berniūnas, Emma E. Buchtel, Amita Chatterjee, Hyundeuk Cheon, In Rae Cho, Daniel Cohnitz, Florian Cova, Vilius Dranseika, Ángeles Eraña Lagos, Laleh Ghadakpour, Maurice Grinberg, Ivar Hannikainen, Takaaki Hashimoto, Amir Horowitz, Evgeniya HristovaYasmina Jraissati, Veselina Kadreva, Kaori Karasawa, Hackjin Kim, Yeonjeong Kim, Minwoo Lee, Carlos Mauro, Masaharu Mizumoto, Sebastiano Moruzzi, Christopher Y. Olivola, Jorge Ornelas, Barbara Osimani, Carlos Romero, Alejandro Rosas, Massimo Sangoi, Andrea Sereni, Sarah Songhorian, Paulo Sousa, Noel Struchiner, Vera Tripodi, Naoki Usui, Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado, Giorgio Volpe, Hrag A. Vosgerichian, Xueyi Zhang, Jing Zhu

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Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject's assertion that p matches her nonverbal behavior) a necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data from over 5,000 people across 26 samples, spanning 22 countries suggests that it is not. Given the surprising cross-cultural robustness of our findings, we argue that the types of evidence for the ascription of a belief are, at least in some circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and when an agent sincerely asserts that p, nonlinguistic behavioral evidence is disregarded. In light of this, we take ourselves to have discovered a universal principle governing the ascription of beliefs in folk psychology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	193-203
Number of pages	11
Journal	Thought
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.248
State	Published - Sep 2017

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We would like to thank John Turri, Wesley Buckwalter and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. This publication was made possible through the support of a grant from the Fuller T heological Seminary/T hrive Center in concert with the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Fuller Thrive Center or the John Templeton Foundation.

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© 2017 The Thought Trust and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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behavioral circumscription
belief
cross-cultural
delusions
folk psychology

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Rose, D., Machery, E., Stich, S., Alai, M., Angelucci, A., Berniūnas, R., Buchtel, E. E., Chatterjee, A., Cheon, H., Cho, I. R., Cohnitz, D., Cova, F., Dranseika, V., Lagos, Á. E., Ghadakpour, L., Grinberg, M., Hannikainen, I., Hashimoto, T., Horowitz, A., ... Zhu, J. (2017). Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing. Thought, 6(3), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.248

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