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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 543-555Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.543
Keywords
mind attribution; dehumanization; mentalizing; mind perception; theory of mind
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-49127, MH-067332] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors examined how a perceiver's identification of a target person's actions covaries with attributions of mind to the target. The authors found in Study 1 that the attribution of intentionality and cognition to a target was associated with identifying the target's action in terms of high-level effects rather than low-level details. In Study 2, both action identification and mind attribution were greater for a liked target, and in Study 3, they were reduced for a target suffering misfortune. In Study 4, it was again found that action identification and mind attribution were greater for a liked target, but like that for the self or a liked other, positive actions were identified at higher levels than negative actions, with the reverse being true for disliked others. In Study 5, the authors found that instructing participants to adopt the target's perspective did not affect mind attribution but did lead to higher level identifications of the target's actions.
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