Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias
How are biases encoded in our representations of social categories? Philosophical and empirical discussions of implicit bias...
Do You See What I See? How Social Differences Influence Mindreading
Disagreeing with others about how to interpret a social interaction is a common occurrence. We often find ourselves offering divergent...
How We Think and Act Together
Individualistic accounts of social cognition primarily focus on individual subjects’ mental representations in thinking about and...
Embodied Cognition and Sport
Successful athletic performance requires precision in many respects. A batter stands behind home plate awaiting the arrival of a ball...
Mind Misreading
Most people think of themselves as pretty good at understanding others' beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions. Accurate mindreading...
Imagination, Desire, and Rationality
We often have affective responses to fictional events. We feel afraid for Desdemona when Othello approaches her in a murderous rage. We...
On Direct Social Perception
Direct Social Perception (DSP) is the idea that we can non-inferentially perceive others’ mental states. In this paper, I argue that the...
Cognitive Empathy
We have various strategies available to us for understanding another person’s state of mind. Perspective taking may be achieved by mental...
Phenomenology of Social Cognition
Can phenomenological evidence play a decisive role in accepting or rejecting social cognition theories? Is it the case that a theory of...
Simulation Theory
There has been much philosophical and empirical work on the ST in the last decade or so, and as a result it is a flourishing theory. My...
