New paper out gender differences in #empathy #compassion #prosocialgiving and (not) #TheoryofMind in N=295 and N=226 participants.
Congrats to Brennan McDonald
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to Brennan McDonald
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 26, 2023 at 9:44 PM
New paper out gender differences in #empathy #compassion #prosocialgiving and (not) #TheoryofMind in N=295 and N=226 participants.
Congrats to Brennan McDonald
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to Brennan McDonald
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I keep coming back to one uncomfortable question: who really owns a person’s life?
In this video, I explore personal autonomy, medical ethics, suffering, dignity, and the boundaries of keeping someone alive.
#philosophy #freewill #existentialism #deepthoughts #Psychology #TheoryOfMind
In this video, I explore personal autonomy, medical ethics, suffering, dignity, and the boundaries of keeping someone alive.
#philosophy #freewill #existentialism #deepthoughts #Psychology #TheoryOfMind
October 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I keep coming back to one uncomfortable question: who really owns a person’s life?
In this video, I explore personal autonomy, medical ethics, suffering, dignity, and the boundaries of keeping someone alive.
#philosophy #freewill #existentialism #deepthoughts #Psychology #TheoryOfMind
In this video, I explore personal autonomy, medical ethics, suffering, dignity, and the boundaries of keeping someone alive.
#philosophy #freewill #existentialism #deepthoughts #Psychology #TheoryOfMind
"Theory of mind" has been used, in autism research, to support the idea of a deficit of empathy in autistic people.
The theory, I think, isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A short 🧵
👇
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #TheoryOfMind #DoubleEmpathy
The theory, I think, isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A short 🧵
👇
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #TheoryOfMind #DoubleEmpathy
March 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
"Theory of mind" has been used, in autism research, to support the idea of a deficit of empathy in autistic people.
The theory, I think, isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A short 🧵
👇
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #TheoryOfMind #DoubleEmpathy
The theory, I think, isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A short 🧵
👇
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #TheoryOfMind #DoubleEmpathy
A Scarf Collage!!! #scarf #scarfs #theoryofmind #benevolence #winter #creativeart #photoshop #winterclothing #collage #photography
February 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A Scarf Collage!!! #scarf #scarfs #theoryofmind #benevolence #winter #creativeart #photoshop #winterclothing #collage #photography
Is empathy political?
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
A thread 🧵
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
A thread 🧵
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
April 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Is empathy political?
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
A thread 🧵
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
A thread 🧵
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
Most people assume everyone else thinks like them.
They don’t. And your brain knows this - but only from around age 4.
#Psychology #CognitiveScience #TheoryOfMind #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
They don’t. And your brain knows this - but only from around age 4.
#Psychology #CognitiveScience #TheoryOfMind #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
March 14, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Most people assume everyone else thinks like them.
They don’t. And your brain knows this - but only from around age 4.
#Psychology #CognitiveScience #TheoryOfMind #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
They don’t. And your brain knows this - but only from around age 4.
#Psychology #CognitiveScience #TheoryOfMind #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
"Theory of mind"
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/8
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/8
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
April 27, 2026 at 7:26 PM
"Theory of mind"
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/8
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/8
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
The Theory of Change and Mind Case-notes 1 29th September 2026 | When our theory meets people 😊✨🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #theoryofchange #theoryofmind
September 29, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The Theory of Change and Mind Case-notes 1 29th September 2026 | When our theory meets people 😊✨🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #theoryofchange #theoryofmind
This one just got its 600th citation on googlescholar and it really makes me happy to see that it's being read by people. Big congrats to Matthias Schurz 🎉
For all you wanted to know about 🧠 & #empathy & #TheoryofMind 👇
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
For all you wanted to know about 🧠 & #empathy & #TheoryofMind 👇
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
August 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This one just got its 600th citation on googlescholar and it really makes me happy to see that it's being read by people. Big congrats to Matthias Schurz 🎉
For all you wanted to know about 🧠 & #empathy & #TheoryofMind 👇
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
For all you wanted to know about 🧠 & #empathy & #TheoryofMind 👇
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Great work by Julia Stietz replicating age differences in #empathy and #TheoryOfMind / #PerspectiveTaking
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Julia Stietz from our lab talks about "Age group differences in social affect and cognition and their neural correlates"
November 29, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Great work by Julia Stietz replicating age differences in #empathy and #TheoryOfMind / #PerspectiveTaking
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Is empathy political?
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
March 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Is empathy political?
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
A thread on autistic empathy.
A still-quite-popular belief about autistic people is that we lack empathy.
I think this is faulty logic.
Here's why:
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
#DoubleEmpathy #TheoryOfMind
Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?
The 'jellyfish' study was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lack capacity for moral reasoning.
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01...
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #TheoryofMind #Neurodivergent
The 'jellyfish' study was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lack capacity for moral reasoning.
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01...
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #TheoryofMind #Neurodivergent
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01-a…
March 19, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?
The 'jellyfish' study was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lack capacity for moral reasoning.
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01...
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #TheoryofMind #Neurodivergent
The 'jellyfish' study was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lack capacity for moral reasoning.
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-01...
1/10
#ActuallyAutistic #TheoryofMind #Neurodivergent
"Theory of mind"
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/9
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/9
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
March 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Theory of mind"
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/9
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
And why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.
A thread.
🧵
1/9
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodiversity #TheoryOfMind #Psychology #DoubleEmpathy
Your brain is constantly searching for social connection, reading human emotion in non-human faces.
When you look at an anthro character like me, your mind isn't making a mistake—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
#Anthropomorphism #furry #Psychology #TheoryOfMind #Philosophy #anthrofurry
When you look at an anthro character like me, your mind isn't making a mistake—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
#Anthropomorphism #furry #Psychology #TheoryOfMind #Philosophy #anthrofurry
October 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Your brain is constantly searching for social connection, reading human emotion in non-human faces.
When you look at an anthro character like me, your mind isn't making a mistake—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
#Anthropomorphism #furry #Psychology #TheoryOfMind #Philosophy #anthrofurry
When you look at an anthro character like me, your mind isn't making a mistake—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
#Anthropomorphism #furry #Psychology #TheoryOfMind #Philosophy #anthrofurry
👶Do babies read minds?
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
July 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
👶Do babies read minds?
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
@vhsouthgate.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen challenges the idea that infants mentalise. Instead they may be “altercentric”, focused on what others pay attention to.
👉 buff.ly/My4EpbB
🎧 buff.ly/9j5ZeF8
#TheoryOfMind #FrontierResearch #EU2025DK @eu2025dk
The Theory and Practice Case files - the Theory of Change and Mind number 2 (6th October 2026). The mental model is hiding in the room 😊✨🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #theoryofchange #theoryofmind
October 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
The Theory and Practice Case files - the Theory of Change and Mind number 2 (6th October 2026). The mental model is hiding in the room 😊✨🎢 @ougradsch.bsky.social #phd #design #research #psychology #theoryofchange #theoryofmind
September 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
New paper out on 🧠 correlates of #HypomanicPersonality and #empathy & #TheoryOfMind
Big congrats to Dahna Choi et al. @kanskelab.bsky.social 🎉
@tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
Big congrats to Dahna Choi et al. @kanskelab.bsky.social 🎉
@tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
Neural correlates of social affect and social cognition as risk markers of bipolar disorder | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Neural correlates of social affect and social cognition as risk markers of bipolar disorder
doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New paper out on 🧠 correlates of #HypomanicPersonality and #empathy & #TheoryOfMind
Big congrats to Dahna Choi et al. @kanskelab.bsky.social 🎉
@tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
Big congrats to Dahna Choi et al. @kanskelab.bsky.social 🎉
@tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
Third day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#kscb2025) starts with a keynote talk by Peter Dayan on #gametheory, #theoryofmind and how they impact #socialgames such as #dictatorgames and #ultimatumgames.
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
July 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Third day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#kscb2025) starts with a keynote talk by Peter Dayan on #gametheory, #theoryofmind and how they impact #socialgames such as #dictatorgames and #ultimatumgames.
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We think about others’ thoughts about our thoughts to navigate romance, sarcasm, gossip, and nuclear standoffs. But recursive mentalizing is hard. In a model contest, I show that under pressure our inner vision goes blurry, not blind. #TheoryOfMind
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We think about others’ thoughts about our thoughts to navigate romance, sarcasm, gossip, and nuclear standoffs. But recursive mentalizing is hard. In a model contest, I show that under pressure our inner vision goes blurry, not blind. #TheoryOfMind
So many animal cognition studies get a lot of attention despite lacking methodologies that withstand scrutiny.
Here, methodological concern is raised by Tauzin on a bonobo theory-of-mind study by Townrow & Krupeneye.
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #animalcognition #theoryofmind #bonobos
Here, methodological concern is raised by Tauzin on a bonobo theory-of-mind study by Townrow & Krupeneye.
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #animalcognition #theoryofmind #bonobos
www.pnas.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
So many animal cognition studies get a lot of attention despite lacking methodologies that withstand scrutiny.
Here, methodological concern is raised by Tauzin on a bonobo theory-of-mind study by Townrow & Krupeneye.
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #animalcognition #theoryofmind #bonobos
Here, methodological concern is raised by Tauzin on a bonobo theory-of-mind study by Townrow & Krupeneye.
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #animalcognition #theoryofmind #bonobos
What are the alternatives to Theory Theory and Simulation Theory, in the Theory of Mind debate?
Don't miss this TRIP online lunchtime talk by Annie Mukherjee.
🔗 Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/plural...
#philosophy #cognitivescience #theoryofmind #philosophyofmind
Don't miss this TRIP online lunchtime talk by Annie Mukherjee.
🔗 Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/plural...
#philosophy #cognitivescience #theoryofmind #philosophyofmind
May 30, 2026 at 9:11 AM
What are the alternatives to Theory Theory and Simulation Theory, in the Theory of Mind debate?
Don't miss this TRIP online lunchtime talk by Annie Mukherjee.
🔗 Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/plural...
#philosophy #cognitivescience #theoryofmind #philosophyofmind
Don't miss this TRIP online lunchtime talk by Annie Mukherjee.
🔗 Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/plural...
#philosophy #cognitivescience #theoryofmind #philosophyofmind
In The Unknown Enemy, Pearl Harbor commander Walter Short is warned of sabotage and surprise attack—then receives follow-up orders fixated on sabotage. One risk balloons; the lethal one is sidelined. A muddled warning is no defence plan.
Learn more
#MilitaryPsychology #TheoryOfMind
Learn more
#MilitaryPsychology #TheoryOfMind
October 4, 2026 at 2:05 AM
In The Unknown Enemy, Pearl Harbor commander Walter Short is warned of sabotage and surprise attack—then receives follow-up orders fixated on sabotage. One risk balloons; the lethal one is sidelined. A muddled warning is no defence plan.
Learn more
#MilitaryPsychology #TheoryOfMind
Learn more
#MilitaryPsychology #TheoryOfMind
Genesis as a theory of mind instead of a creation #mythology. www.youtube.com/shorts/gelcJ...
The creation myth #genesis is not what you think! #theoryofmind
#shorts #mythology #scifi #spirituality #consciousness
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Genesis as a theory of mind instead of a creation #mythology. www.youtube.com/shorts/gelcJ...