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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"mental states"”.
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Reusing a robot's behavioral mechanisms to model and manipulate human mental states
… robot with mechanisms to work with hidden human mental states. The robot attempts to infer these hidden states from observable factors and use them to better understand and predict behavior. It also takes steps to alter them in order to change the future behavior of the other agent. It utilizes …
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The effects of the Newborn Behavioural Observation approach on mothers’ curiosity and interest in interpreting their infants’ mental states
… and interest in interpreting their infants’ mental states after controlling for maternal-foetal attachment. The sample comprised 60 expectant mothers that were evenly divided into two groups. Mothers in the intervention group received post-natal care as usual as well as the NBO intervention …
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IDENTIFYING CORE CONSCIOUSNESS IN ANIMALS
… a problem that is difficult to address because mental states cannot be directly observed. Many animals exhibit behavior similar to our own, and consequently it is easy to attribute to them corresponding mental states. The assumptions underlying these attributions, however, are subject to error; …
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Thinking about thinking: Investigating the co-development of metacognition, self-control and ToM
… and theory of mind (ToM). The developmental relationship between self-control and ToM is well established (Hughes & Ensor, 2007). However, there has been no attempt to investigate the relationship between metacognition, self-control and ToM at the time of onset. The aim of the current …
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Words and Doing Things: What Meanings Can Do and the Role of Motivational States in Determining Meaning
… and discourse seem to have to non-cognitive mental states: states like desire that play a special role in motivating action. I argue against the metasemantic expressivist attempt to do this, which is a version of expressivism that states that normative expressions have their (standard) …
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Theory of mind development : comparing autism spectrum disorder subgroups in light of changing diagnostic criteria
It has been proposed that autism is fundamentally a disorder of social relatedness. Severe deficits in theory of mind (ToM) - or the ability to understand that other people can have mental states different from our own and that these mental states influence behaviour - are commonly thought to …
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Bayesian Theory of Mind : modeling human reasoning about beliefs, desires, goals, and social relations
… Theory of Mind (ToM): our conception of others' mental states, how they relate to the world, and how they cause behavior. Humans use ToM to predict others' actions, given their mental states, but also to do the reverse: attribute mental states - beliefs, desires, intentions, knowledge, goals, …
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The status of simulation theory in the interpretation debate
… the behavior of others, and how we ascribe mental states such as beliefs and desires to each other. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the status of the two opponents of this debate, simulation theory and theory-theory, concerning the plausibility of their explanation of self …
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Beyond face value: involuntary emotional anticipation in typical development and Asperger's syndrome
… and anticipating the behavior and associated mental/emotional states of mind of others is crucial for successful social interactions. Typically developed (TD) humans rely on the processing and integration of social cues that accompany other’s actions to make, either implicitly or explicitly, …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… of deference when self-ascribing your current mental states. The second phenomenon is our privileged and peculiar self-knowledge. Roughly, self-knowledge is privileged insofar as one knows ones mental states in a way that is highly epistemically secure relative to other varieties of contingent …
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The Irreducibility of Intentionality
… and desires are often referred to as intentional mental states, i.e. mental states with contents that refer to something outside of themselves. There are two pertinent questions in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of these intentional states and the kind of explanation that is involved …
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Models for Satisficing Mentalizing
… Mind (ToM) enables people to infer other agents’ mental states such as their likely desire, intentions, beliefs and even emotions from observable behavior. Inferring such mental states is very important for social interactions, both in collaborative and competitive settings as it allows one to …
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Representation of Madwomen in Mexican Literature: A Comparison Between Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo
… from Mexican literature in terms of their mental states. A great emphasis is put on male and female writers' typical way of representing a female character.
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A theoretical framework for computer models of cooperative dialogue, acknowledging multi-agent conflict
… is expressed in the different patterns of mental states which characterise multi-agent conflict, cooperation and indifference as three alternative postural relations. Agents can recognise and potentially create these. Dialogue actions are the strategic tools with which mental states can be …
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Mechanistic and psychological explanations of behaviour: the problem of mental causation
… problem we are going to investigate is that of mental causation. Human beings often explain to each other why they do what they do by citing their reasons, that is, mental states like beliefs and desires. Explanations of behaviour which invoke mental causes are known as psychological …
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Mentalizacija ankstyvoje paauglystėje ir jos sąsajos su prieraišumu, smurto patyrimu ir emociniais bei elgesio sunkumais /
Mentalizing is a multidimensional capacity to understand behavior of others and ourselves in terms of mental states, such as feelings, thoughts, desires, and beliefs (Luyten & Fonagy, 2015). Although is it suggested to be important in understanding both normal and disrupted development, the …
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Mentalization in early adolescence and its associations with attachment, abuse and emotional and behavioral difficulties /
Mentalizing is a multidimensional capacity to understand behavior of others and ourselves in terms of mental states, such as feelings, thoughts, desires, and beliefs (Luyten & Fonagy, 2015). Although is it suggested to be important in understanding both normal and disrupted development, the …
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Social Cognition in Disorders of the Basal Ganglia
… exhibited deficits in reasoning about mental states. These deficits can largely be attributed to executive dysfunction which results from disordered activity in the circuitry linking the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia. Patients with Huntington’s exhibited reduced …
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The measurement of parental mentalisation: psychometric properties of the parental reflective functioning questionnaire (PRFQ) and a qualitative exploration of parental mentalisation in asylum-seeking mothers
… (PRF) is a parent’s ability to reflect on their mental states, the mental states of their child, and to appreciate how they may influence each other. The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) offers a brief, self-report assessment of PRF that can be administered to parents of …
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Goal and action inference for helpful robots using self as simulator
… to understand human behavior in terms of the mental states that generate it, rather than only upon observable surface behavior. This understanding is key for cooperating with robots instead of using them as tools.
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