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Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

Volume 6, Issue 3
Original Article

Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno‐Mentalizing

David Rose

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: rose0david@gmail.com

Rutgers University

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rose0david@gmail.com

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Edouard Machery

University of Pittsburgh

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Stephen Stich

Rutgers University

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Mario Alai

University of Urbino

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Adriano Angelucci

University of Urbino

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Renatas Berniūnas

Vilnius University

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Emma E. Buchtel

The Education University of Hong Kong

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Amita Chatterjee

Jadavpur University

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Hyundeuk Cheon

Ewha Womans University

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In‐Rae Cho

Seoul National University

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Daniel Cohnitz

Utrecht University

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Florian Cova

University of Geneva

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Vilius Dranseika

Vilnius University

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Ángeles Eraña Lagos

Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM

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Laleh Ghadakpour

Iran

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Maurice Grinberg

New Bulgarian University

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Ivar Hannikainen

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

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Takaaki Hashimoto

University of Tokyo

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Amir Horowitz

Open University of Israel

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Evgeniya Hristova

New Bulgarian University

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Yasmina Jraissati

American University of Beirut

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Veselina Kadreva

New Bulgarian University

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Kaori Karasawa

University of Tokyo

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Hackjin Kim

Korea University

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Yeonjeong Kim

Carnegie Mellon University

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Minwoo Lee

Korea University

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Carlos Mauro

Católica Porto Business School

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Masaharu Mizumoto

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Sebastiano Moruzzi

University of Bologna

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Christopher Y. Olivola

Carnegie Mellon University

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Jorge Ornelas

Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

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Barbara Osimani

Ludwig‐Maximilians Univesität, München – MCMP

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Carlos Romero

Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM

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Alejandro Rosas

National University of Colombia

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Massimo Sangoi

University of Urbino

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Andrea Sereni

Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia

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Sarah Songhorian

Università Vita‐Salute San Raffaele Milano

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Paulo Sousa

Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast

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Noel Struchiner

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

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Vera Tripodi

University of Turin

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Naoki Usui

Mie University

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Alejandro Vázquez del Mercado

Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM

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Giorgio Volpe

University of Bologna

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Hrag A. Vosgerichian

American University of Beirut

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Xueyi Zhang

Southeast University

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Jing Zhu

Sun Yat‐Sen University

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First published: 17 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.248
Cited by: 2

Abstract

Is behavioral integration (i.e., which occurs when a subject's assertion that p matches her nonverbal behavior) a necessary feature of belief in folk psychology? Our data from over 5,000 people across 26 samples, spanning 22 countries suggests that it is not. Given the surprising cross‐cultural robustness of our findings, we argue that the types of evidence for the ascription of a belief are, at least in some circumstances, lexicographically ordered: assertions are first taken into account, and when an agent sincerely asserts that p, nonlinguistic behavioral evidence is disregarded. In light of this, we take ourselves to have discovered a universal principle governing the ascription of beliefs in folk psychology.

Number of times cited according to CrossRef: 2

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