Social and Developmental Psychology Seminar Series

What it is to be a mindreader? Mindreading involves representing mental states. And just as representing physical states requires having some model of the physical, so equally representing mental states requires having some model of the mental.

I would like to suggest a framework that takes into account two spheres of sharing: ‘sharing economies,’ both of production and consumption; and intimate interpersonal relationships, where the therapeutic ethos includes a cultural requirement that we share our emotions.