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The future of TTOM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Søren Overgaard*
Affiliation:
Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, DK-2300Copenhagen S, Denmark. [email protected]://cfs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/259148

Abstract

“Thinking through other minds,” or TTOM, is defined in two different ways. On the one hand, it refers to something people do – for example, inferences they make about others’ expectations. On the other hand, it refers to a particular theoretical model of those things that people do. If the concept of TTOM is to have any future, this ambiguity must be redressed.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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