Abstract of Knowing When to Leave Someone Isn’t Easy: Social Foraging with Partners of Varying Cooperation Levels, by William Lee, Degree ScM., Brown University, October …
Humans have remarkable capacities to perceive and understand other minds. Considering and adopting others’ points of view—or visual perspective taking—is a social cognitive capacity foundational …
This thesis introduces mechanism domains as a cognitive representation underlying causal reasoning. It has been observed that people believe they understand causal workings in more …
This series of studies used an experimental paradigm to examine how people interpret and form judgments of personality change over time, and how their perceptions …
Making moral judgments is commonplace in everyday life, but oftentimes the information people use to make such judgments changes with time. Today, new information about …
What information do people look for when making moral judgments about negative events? This question is important given its theoretical relevance (for psychological models that …