Seeing the world through others’ minds: Inferring social context from behaviour

Cognition

Volumn 159, Issue , 2017, Pages 48-60

  Teoh, Yvonne ^a   Wallis, Emma ^c   Stephen, Ian D ^b   Mitchell, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Inferences; Mentalising; Retrodiction; Social context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; EMOTION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84997343326     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.11.003     Document Type: Article

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