The 3d Mind Model characterizes how people understand mental states across modern and historical cultures.

ABSTRACT: Humans rely on social interaction to achieve many important goals. These interactions rely in turn on people's capacity to understand others' mental states: their thoughts and feelings. Do different cultures understand minds in different ways, or do widely shared principles describe how different cultures understand mental states? Extensive data suggest that the mind organizes mental state concepts using the 3d Mind Model, composed of the psychological dimensions: rationality (vs. emotionality), social impact (states which affect others more vs. less), and valence (positive vs. negative states). However, this evidence comes primarily from English-speaking individuals in the United States. Here we investigated mental state representation in 57 contemporary countries, using 163 million Engli

SUBMITTER: Thornton MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature