Inference or enaction data set

Name: Inference or enaction data set
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Documentation:: This spreadsheet contains the results of the 'Inference or Enaction' experiment on the narrative processing of other minds. It is being made publicly available as part of the open access policy in European Research Council funded research, grant number 295663.

Language:: English
Keywords:: genre

experimental psychology

social cognition

narrative

mentalizing

language and cognitive development

linguistics

ToM

enactivism

literature
Subjects:: Psychology, Experimental
Pubs id:: 1480072
UUID:: uuid:7c7f255d-0913-4aca-acd1-2c31306c57f7
Local pid:: pubs:1480072
Deposit date:: 2014-07-22
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_7c7f255d09134acaacd12c31306c57f7

Related item:: Inference or Enaction? The Impact of Genre on the Narrative Processing of Other Minds
Description:: Do narratives shape how humans process other minds or do they presuppose an existing theory of mind? This study experimentally investigated this problem by assessing subject responses to systematic alterations in the genre, levels of intentionality, and linguistic complexity of narratives. It showed that the interaction of genre and intentionality level are crucial in determining how narratives are cognitively processed. Specifically, genres that deployed evolutionarily familiar scenarios (relationship stories) were rated as being higher in quality when levels of intentionality were increased; conversely, stories that lacked evolutionary familiarity (espionage stories) were rated as being lower in quality with increases in intentionality level. Overall, the study showed that narrative is not solely either the origin or the product of our intuitions about other minds; instead, different genres will have different—even opposite—effects on how we understand the mind states of others.

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