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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1998 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 1367-2223
- eISSN
- 1467-839X
- DOI
- 10.1111/1467-839X.00019
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
According to the everyday understanding of the mind (called folk psychology), people’s belief and desire causally combine to determine their intention, which in turn controls their action. However, recent empirical investigations have shown that psychologists’ and laypeople’s intuitions are not always in agreement about this common sense. To shed light, in this study folk psychology of belief, desire, and intention is conceptualized as a category of the mind; that is, a kind of category that embodies people’s causal knowledge about human action. Four experiments explored the implications of this conception for understanding and prediction of social action (Experiments 1 and 2) and for explanation of simple scripted action (Experiments 3 and 4). The results showed that the present conception of folk psychology is useful in guiding empirical investigation. A systematic investigation of folk psychology may revitalize Heider's research program on naive psychology.
Journal
Asian Journal of Social Psychology – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1998