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Mental State Inference

Mental State Inference is an academic construct within the field of social inference that refers to the cognitive process of attributing unobservable internal states—such as beliefs, intentions, desires, or emotions—to oneself or others based on observable behavior, contextual cues, and prior knowledge.

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180

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?

David Premack, Guy Woodruff · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1978 · 8.6K citations · Full text

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Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."

Alan M. Leslie · Psychological Review · 1987 · 3.2K citations

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Measuring empathy: reliability and validity of the Empathy Quotient

Emma Lawrence, Philip Shaw, Dustin Baker et al. · Psychological Medicine · 2004 · 1K citations

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Talking about internal states: The acquisition of an explicit theory of mind.

Inge Bretherton, Marjorie Beeghly · Developmental Psychology · 1982 · 959 citations

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Probabilistic Judgements in Deluded and Non-Deluded Subjects

Shafik Huq, Philippa Garety · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A · 1988 · 595 citations

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Authors

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  1. RS
    Rebecca Saxe

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    9 publications · 2K citations

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  2. LY
    Liane Young

    Boston College, United States

    9 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. GD
    Gail D. Heyman

    University of California San Diego, United States

    6 publications · 513 citations

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  4. JP
    Jason P. Mitchell

    Harvard University, United States

    4 publications · 347 citations

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  5. GB
    Geoffrey Bird

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 289 citations

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Institutions

257

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    23 publications

    4.7K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    27 publications

    5.7K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Boston College

    Boston, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    744 citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    858 citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    126 citations

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  1. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

    SCAN · 10 publications · 495 citations

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  2. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

    8 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. Developmental Psychology

    5 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Child Development

    4 publications · 515 citations

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  5. British Journal of Developmental Psychology

    4 publications · 285 citations

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