Social Attention Effects Do Not Depend On Mental-state Attribution

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff G. Cole ◽  
Daniel T. Smith ◽  
Rebeccah-Claire Billing
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Mental State Attribution

Dehumanization and Mentalizing Animals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Kasperbauer
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Phenomenal States

This chapter applies the psychological account from chapter 3 on how we rank human beings above other animals, to the particular case of using mental states to assign animals moral status. Experiments on the psychology of mental state attribution are discussed, focusing on their implications for human moral psychology. The chapter argues that attributions of phenomenal states, like emotions, drive our assignments of moral status. It also describes how this is significantly impacted by the process of dehumanization. Psychological research on anthropocentrism and using animals as food and as companions is discussed in order to illuminate the relationship between dehumanization and mental state attribution.

scholarly journals Shot scale matters: The effect of close-up frequency on mental state attribution in film viewers

Poetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 101480
Author(s):  
Katalin Eva Bálint ◽  
Janine Nadine Blessing ◽  
Brendan Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mental State Attribution

Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M Platek ◽  
Samuel R Critton ◽  
Thomas E Myers ◽  
Gordon G Gallup
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Contagious Yawning ◽  
Mental State Attribution

scholarly journals No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wilkinson ◽  
Natalie Sebanz ◽  
Isabella Mandl ◽  
Ludwig Huber
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Perception And Action ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Action Pattern ◽  
Social Stimuli ◽  
Contagious Yawning ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
Fixed Action Pattern ◽  
Fixed Action ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract Three hypotheses have attempted to explain the phenomenon of contagious yawning. It has been hypothesized that it is a fixed action pattern for which the releasing stimulus is the observation of another yawn, that it is the result of non-conscious mimicry emerging through close links between perception and action or that it is the result of empathy, involving the ability to engage in mental state attribution. This set of experiments sought to distinguish between these hypotheses by examining contagious yawning in a species that is unlikely to show nonconscious mimicry and empathy but does respond to social stimuli: the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria. A demonstrator tortoise was conditioned to yawn when presented with a red square-shaped stimulus. Observer tortoises were exposed to three conditions: observation of conditioned yawn, non demonstration control, and stimulus only control. We measured the number of yawns for each observer animal in each condition. There was no difference between conditions. Experiment 2 therefore increased the number of conditioned yawns presented. Again, there was no significant difference between conditions. It seemed plausible that the tortoises did not view the conditioned yawn as a real yawn and therefore a final experiment was run using video recorded stimuli. The observer tortoises were presented with three conditions: real yawn, conditioned yawns and empty background. Again there was no significant difference between conditions. We therefore conclude that the red-footed tortoise does not yawn in response to observing a conspecific yawn. This suggests that contagious yawning is not the result of a fixed action pattern but may involve more complex social processes.

scholarly journals Slow motion increases perceived intent

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (33) ◽  
pp. 9250-9255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene M. Caruso ◽  
Zachary C. Burns ◽  
Benjamin A. Converse
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Mental State Attribution ◽  
Harmful Action ◽  
Tacit Assumptions ◽  
Motion Video

To determine the appropriate punishment for a harmful action, people must often make inferences about the transgressor’s intent. In courtrooms and popular media, such inferences increasingly rely on video evidence, which is often played in “slow motion.” Four experiments (n = 1,610) involving real surveillance footage from a murder or broadcast replays of violent contact in professional football demonstrate that viewing an action in slow motion, compared with regular speed, can cause viewers to perceive an action as more intentional. This slow motion intentionality bias occurred, in part, because slow motion video caused participants to feel like the actor had more time to act, even when they knew how much clock time had actually elapsed. Four additional experiments (n = 2,737) reveal that allowing viewers to see both regular speed and slow motion replay mitigates the bias, but does not eliminate it. We conclude that an empirical understanding of the effect of slow motion on mental state attribution should inform the life-or-death decisions that are currently based on tacit assumptions about the objectivity of human perception.

scholarly journals Factive and nonfactive mental state attribution

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nagel
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mental State Attribution
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