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#875 Uta Frith & Chris Frith: What Makes Us Social?

The Dissenter

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The Concept of Mentalizing

This chapter discusses the concept of mentalizing, which involves attributing mental states to others. It explores how autistic children struggle with this ability and how it is unique to humans. It also mentions experiments with an artificial agent that can perform mentalizing and its impact on performance in competitive and cooperative games.

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