“I'm Still Here” got 3 Oscar nominations.
Brazilians are mentalizing this today.
Brazilians are mentalizing this today.
a man is holding an oscar statue in front of a hollywood sign
ALT: a man is holding an oscar statue in front of a hollywood sign
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“I'm Still Here” got 3 Oscar nominations.
Brazilians are mentalizing this today.
Brazilians are mentalizing this today.
often people who are self consciously aware of social media conformity are the most skilled at mentalizing away their own adherence to localized conformity
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
often people who are self consciously aware of social media conformity are the most skilled at mentalizing away their own adherence to localized conformity
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02540-2Harootonian et al. find that people switch between effortful, tailored teaching and easier, simple shortcuts, favouring shortcuts even when unhelpful. Prompting participants to reflect on learners’ limitations restores effective, personalized instruction.
dlvr.it
August 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that mentalizing is fast, easy, and early developing, while other research indicates that it is slow, hard, and late developing. The Factive Mentalizing View (Philips & Norby 2019; Philips et al.
philosophyofbrains.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…
'Factors that amplify and attenuate egocentric mentalizing', a new Review by Andrew R. Todd & Diana I. Tamir
Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk
PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp
#psychology #psychscisky
Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk
PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp
#psychology #psychscisky
January 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
'Factors that amplify and attenuate egocentric mentalizing', a new Review by Andrew R. Todd & Diana I. Tamir
Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk
PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp
#psychology #psychscisky
Web: go.nature.com/3vOvdPk
PDF: rdcu.be/dw1cp
#psychology #psychscisky
Me and @dryan149.bsky.social's commentary on @julianje.bsky.social and @yarrowdunham.bsky.social's excellent BBS target article "The Institutional Stance" just went live. JJ-E and YD argue that sometimes, we rely on role-based representations instead of mentalizing...
philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2
philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2
philpapers.org
September 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Me and @dryan149.bsky.social's commentary on @julianje.bsky.social and @yarrowdunham.bsky.social's excellent BBS target article "The Institutional Stance" just went live. JJ-E and YD argue that sometimes, we rely on role-based representations instead of mentalizing...
philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2
philpapers.org/rec/WESWDW-2
Honourable mention goes to "It's mentalizing time."
April 29, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Honourable mention goes to "It's mentalizing time."
What is the role of mentalizing in psychological interventions? www.nationalelfservice.net?p=203774
In this blog, Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in adult psychotherapy.
#Mentalizing #MBT #Mentalization #Psychotherapy #SystematicReview
In this blog, Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in adult psychotherapy.
#Mentalizing #MBT #Mentalization #Psychotherapy #SystematicReview
What is the role of mentalizing in psychological interventions?
Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in psychological interventions in adult populations.
www.nationalelfservice.net
September 27, 2024 at 1:36 PM
What is the role of mentalizing in psychological interventions? www.nationalelfservice.net?p=203774
In this blog, Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in adult psychotherapy.
#Mentalizing #MBT #Mentalization #Psychotherapy #SystematicReview
In this blog, Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in adult psychotherapy.
#Mentalizing #MBT #Mentalization #Psychotherapy #SystematicReview
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
Thrilled to share new research on teaching!
Work supervised by
@cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social.
This project asks:
When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3
osf.io/preprints/os...
Thrilled to share new research on teaching!
Work supervised by
@cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social.
This project asks:
When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3
osf.io/preprints/os...
May 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
Thrilled to share new research on teaching!
Work supervised by
@cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social.
This project asks:
When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3
osf.io/preprints/os...
Thrilled to share new research on teaching!
Work supervised by
@cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social.
This project asks:
When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3
osf.io/preprints/os...
OK.
My theory about what happened at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
They faked a shooting to spice up the mind-numbingly boring program which featured a mentalist who apparently wasn't mentalizing.
😊
My theory about what happened at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
They faked a shooting to spice up the mind-numbingly boring program which featured a mentalist who apparently wasn't mentalizing.
😊
April 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
OK.
My theory about what happened at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
They faked a shooting to spice up the mind-numbingly boring program which featured a mentalist who apparently wasn't mentalizing.
😊
My theory about what happened at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
They faked a shooting to spice up the mind-numbingly boring program which featured a mentalist who apparently wasn't mentalizing.
😊
Two poster presentations from my group at #sbdm2026 in Paris. Magdalena Soukupová on the social learning mechanisms of human goal selection and @pierreledenmat.bsky.social on (lack of) mentalizing in social learning.
May 27, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Two poster presentations from my group at #sbdm2026 in Paris. Magdalena Soukupová on the social learning mechanisms of human goal selection and @pierreledenmat.bsky.social on (lack of) mentalizing in social learning.
Mentalizing to attract more feminine people with an interest in dark romance + noncon bdsm + weird fantasy + princess aesthetics
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Mentalizing to attract more feminine people with an interest in dark romance + noncon bdsm + weird fantasy + princess aesthetics
My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5
philpapers.org
July 30, 2026 at 5:51 PM
My paper 'Desire, decoupling, and factive mentalizing' is forthcoming at Mind and Language! Attributing desire requires the complicated stuff for attributing belief, but empirical work suggests it's easier to do. What gives? Check out more here: philpapers.org/rec/DEADDA-5
The single most important skill for effective academic writing* is good mentalizing of your readers.
What do they know already?
What do you know that they don't?
What is an effective way to share what you know that they don't?
What will they find compelling?
1/2
*presumably all writing
What do they know already?
What do you know that they don't?
What is an effective way to share what you know that they don't?
What will they find compelling?
1/2
*presumably all writing
March 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The single most important skill for effective academic writing* is good mentalizing of your readers.
What do they know already?
What do you know that they don't?
What is an effective way to share what you know that they don't?
What will they find compelling?
1/2
*presumably all writing
What do they know already?
What do you know that they don't?
What is an effective way to share what you know that they don't?
What will they find compelling?
1/2
*presumably all writing
A summary of the brain’s functional specialization for social affective cognition: 1) The emotion regulation network, 2) the embodied simulation network, 3) the mentalizing network, 4) the subcortical parenting network
January 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A summary of the brain’s functional specialization for social affective cognition: 1) The emotion regulation network, 2) the embodied simulation network, 3) the mentalizing network, 4) the subcortical parenting network
ducking into the restaurant bathroom so I can snort a line of egocentric mentalizing theory in peace
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
ducking into the restaurant bathroom so I can snort a line of egocentric mentalizing theory in peace
Too late! I've already represented myself as the chill teacher using heuristics and you as the overly complicated mentalizing teacher!
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02540-2Harootonian et al. find that people switch between effortful, tailored teaching and easier, simple shortcuts, favouring shortcuts even when unhelpful. Prompting participants to reflect on learners’ limitations restores effective, personalized instruction.
dlvr.it
September 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Too late! I've already represented myself as the chill teacher using heuristics and you as the overly complicated mentalizing teacher!
Ever wonder why some people see danger everywhere — and others don’t?
It may come down to one underused mental skill:
Mentalizing — the ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling.
Conspiracy thinking often starts where mentalizing fails. 👇
It may come down to one underused mental skill:
Mentalizing — the ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling.
Conspiracy thinking often starts where mentalizing fails. 👇
March 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Ever wonder why some people see danger everywhere — and others don’t?
It may come down to one underused mental skill:
Mentalizing — the ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling.
Conspiracy thinking often starts where mentalizing fails. 👇
It may come down to one underused mental skill:
Mentalizing — the ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling.
Conspiracy thinking often starts where mentalizing fails. 👇
New work from Alicia Vallorani's dissertation + NIH F31! 🧠🎉
Using naturalistic social interactions + fMRI, negative affect during interactions shaped subsequent mentalizing network connectivity.
A great example of dynamic social processing in real-world contexts.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Using naturalistic social interactions + fMRI, negative affect during interactions shaped subsequent mentalizing network connectivity.
A great example of dynamic social processing in real-world contexts.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Effect of social interaction negative affect on within-person mentalizing network connectivity
Abstract. Understanding others’ intentions and emotions is supported by the mentalizing network, helping people navigate the inherently complex dynamics of
doi.org
May 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
New work from Alicia Vallorani's dissertation + NIH F31! 🧠🎉
Using naturalistic social interactions + fMRI, negative affect during interactions shaped subsequent mentalizing network connectivity.
A great example of dynamic social processing in real-world contexts.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Using naturalistic social interactions + fMRI, negative affect during interactions shaped subsequent mentalizing network connectivity.
A great example of dynamic social processing in real-world contexts.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
Excited to announce Peter Fonagy will deliver a plenary talk "Epistemic Trust, Mentalizing and Trauma" at #BIGSPD25 bigspd.org.uk/bigspd-confe...
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Excited to announce Peter Fonagy will deliver a plenary talk "Epistemic Trust, Mentalizing and Trauma" at #BIGSPD25 bigspd.org.uk/bigspd-confe...
🧵 New paper alert! How does mentalizing shape adolescents’ daily social interactions when maladaptive traits are elevated? We tracked 294 adolescents across >13,000 daily interactions, linking DSM-5 AMPD Criteria A & B with ambulatory assessment. @rebeccatheshiner.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧵 New paper alert! How does mentalizing shape adolescents’ daily social interactions when maladaptive traits are elevated? We tracked 294 adolescents across >13,000 daily interactions, linking DSM-5 AMPD Criteria A & B with ambulatory assessment. @rebeccatheshiner.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
it's so wild that autism "experts" still think mentalizing is the barrier most autistics face...instead of the social tapestry itself.
i have not ever struggled to understand others Individually. i struggle with fictional, mutable social dynamics that block deep meaningful honest connection.
i have not ever struggled to understand others Individually. i struggle with fictional, mutable social dynamics that block deep meaningful honest connection.
November 27, 2023 at 1:31 AM
it's so wild that autism "experts" still think mentalizing is the barrier most autistics face...instead of the social tapestry itself.
i have not ever struggled to understand others Individually. i struggle with fictional, mutable social dynamics that block deep meaningful honest connection.
i have not ever struggled to understand others Individually. i struggle with fictional, mutable social dynamics that block deep meaningful honest connection.
Putting a dog in a slide definitely gets my attention. But did you know dogs are good at mentalizing humans? Other dogs. . . Not so much! #BIGSPD25
June 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Putting a dog in a slide definitely gets my attention. But did you know dogs are good at mentalizing humans? Other dogs. . . Not so much! #BIGSPD25
Mentally correcting Sabers name to Arturia during the upcoming collab, mentalizing early.
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Mentally correcting Sabers name to Arturia during the upcoming collab, mentalizing early.