title: Knowledge Attributions and Behavioral Predictions.
abstract: Recent work has shown that knowledge attributions affect how people think others should behave, more so than belief attributions do. This paper reports two experiments providing evidence that (a) knowledge attributions also affect behavioral predictions more strongly than belief attributions do, and (b) knowledge attributions facilitate faster behavioral predictions than belief attributions do. Thus, knowledge attributions play multiple critical roles in social cognition, guiding judgments about how people should and will behave.
authors.affiliation: Philosophy Department and Cognitive Science Program, University of Waterloo.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Belief; Knowledge; Prediction; Social cognition; Theory of mind