A question of perspective: Target- vs. perceiver-specific dimensions of mind perception.

IF 2.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Cognition Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-08 DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106231

Nele J Bögemann, Lasana T Harris, Steffen Nestler

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Abstract

Mind perception - the inference of mind in others - is foundational for social cognition and interaction, but previous research on its underlying dimensions has so far only produced mixed findings. In a prominent study, H.M. Gray et al. (2007) identified two dimensions of mind perception - Agency and Experience -, while more recent work instead suggests three dimensions similar to Body, Heart, and Mind (Malle, 2019; Weisman et al., 2017). Here, we provide a comprehensive account that can accommodate both dimensional structures by distinguishing target- from perceiver-specific dimensions of mind perception. These dimensions explain target- and perceiver-specific differences in mind perception that were differentially focused on by previous studies ascribing to the competing dimensional structures. To test our account empirically and compare target- vs. perceiver-specific dimensions, we gathered online survey data from two samples (N = 157, and N = 150). In both samples, exploratory factor analyses yielded two target-specific dimensions in line with Agency-Experience, and three perceiver-specific dimensions in line with Body-Heart-Mind, thereby validating our explanatory account. Further analyses showed that perceiver-specific dimensions are meaningfully associated with perceivers' demographics, personality, and spiritual belief; and that they depend on target context. Together, our results resolve inconsistencies in mind perception research and work toward a novel unifying mind perception framework.

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视角问题：心理感知的目标与感知者特定维度。

心理感知——对他人心理的推断——是社会认知和互动的基础，但迄今为止，之前对其潜在维度的研究只产生了复杂的结果。在一项著名的研究中，H.M. Gray等人（2007）确定了心灵感知的两个维度——代理和经验，而最近的研究则提出了类似于身体、心脏和心灵的三个维度(Malle, 2019；Weisman等人，2017)。在这里，我们提供了一个全面的解释，可以通过区分目标和感知者特定的心理感知维度来适应这两个维度结构。这些维度解释了心理知觉的目标特异性和知觉者特异性差异，这些差异被先前的研究归因于竞争的维度结构。为了从经验上验证我们的说法，并比较目标和感知者特定的维度，我们从两个样本（N = 157和N = 150）中收集了在线调查数据。在这两个样本中，探索性因素分析产生了两个与代理经验相一致的目标特定维度，以及三个与身心相一致的感知者特定维度，从而验证了我们的解释。进一步的分析表明，感知者特定维度与感知者的人口统计学、个性和精神信仰有意义的关联；它们取决于目标环境。总之，我们的研究结果解决了心理知觉研究中的不一致之处，并朝着一个新的统一的心理知觉框架努力。

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Cognition PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

283

期刊介绍： Cognition is an international journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind. It covers a wide variety of subjects concerning all the different aspects of cognition, ranging from biological and experimental studies to formal analysis. Contributions from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, ethology and philosophy are welcome in this journal provided that they have some bearing on the functioning of the mind. In addition, the journal serves as a forum for discussion of social and political aspects of cognitive science.