Modeling the Predictive Social Mind

Modeling the Predictive Social Mind.

The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting the mental states and actions of other people. However, social cognition researchers have only scratched the surface of the predictive social mind. We discuss here a new framework for explaining how people organize social knowledge and use it for social prediction. Specifically, we propose a multilayered framework of social cognition in w...

Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains

Modularity and the Predictive Mind

Modular approaches to the architecture of the mind claim that some mental mechanisms, such as sensory input processes, operate in special-purpose subsystems that are functionally independent from the rest of the mind. This assumption of modularity seems to be in tension with recent claims that the mind has a predictive architecture. Predictive approaches propose that both sensory processing and...

The predictive role of depression in the defect of the Theory of Mind

Depression is a common disorder in psychiatry. Depressed people are likely to have difficulty in adaptive behaviors and social interactions; like Mind Reading ability. The present study was a descriptive-correlation study and was performed on depressed patients and the healthy counterpart. Subjects were evaluated by RME and BDI-II. The findings showed that depression had a significant predictiv...

Social Influence Modeling for Utility Functions in Model Predictive Control

Social influence has no small effect on the preferences and behavior of agents in a social space. Contrary to rationality, we sometimes compromise our own needs for those of others. Thus, social influence has important implications in agent cognitive modeling for multiobjective decision-making problems. Namely, where these activities occur within a social context, the intentional preferences or...