Diana Tamir
<p>Nov 21, 2014 02:53 PM see today's FriSem:</p>
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<b>Mental State Representation</b> (correlation of psych and neural dimensions)</p>
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she is now a postdoc in Stfd Social Neurosci Lab (Jamil Zaki);
will be an asst prof at Princeton in Psych in July 2015.</p>
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abstract for today:</p>
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Break open the head of any individual, and you'll find a rich internal life, filled with thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that together define their unique perspective.</p>
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Despite the inherent opacity of other's minds, humans are quite proficient at representing and inferring other's invisible, internal mental states. How do we accomplish these mind reading feats? </p>
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In the first part of this talk I will discuss the dimensions that structure our psychological and neural representations of others mental states. Using representational similarity analyses over neuroimaging data, we find evidence that people represent mental states along three unique psychological dimensions: <b>dual process, social impact, and valence</b>.</p>
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In the second part of this talk I will discuss the cognitive processes we use in service of social inferences. Four behavioral and neuroimaging studies provide evidence that individuals make social <b>inferences by first anchoring on self-knowledge, and then serially adjusting away</b>. Together these findings lend insight into the processes and mental representations that guide our social cognition.</p>
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