Mistaking a witnessed person for another familiar one

One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Person

the term ‘Cartesian’ has suffered the same fate in certain circles (see below, n.3). 2 John Foster offers a discussion of a priori objections to dualistic psychophysical causation in Foster [1991], pp 158–185. He goes on (pp 185–201) to discuss causal closure and causal overdetermination as if they constituted empirical objections; as I argue below, I disagree with his categorisation, while acc...

Person-Specific Subspace Analysis for Unconstrained Familiar Face Identification

Giovani Chiachia1,2 [email protected] Nicolas Pinto2,3 [email protected] William Robson Schwartz4 [email protected] Anderson Rocha1 [email protected] Alexandre X. Falcão1 [email protected] David Cox2 [email protected] 1 Institute of Computing University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil 2 Rowland Institute Harvard University Cambridge, USA 3 McGovern Institute Massachuset...

Asymmetry in pay-off predicts how familiar individuals respond to one another.

Familiarity influences individual decision-making in many vertebrate species. Here, we propose that familiarity modulates behaviour to different extents depending on the social context of the interaction. Specifically, the more that one player stands to gain relative to the other, the less important familiarity will be in influencing their responses to one another. We test this prediction using...

Mistaking randomness for free will.

Belief in free will is widespread. The present research considered one reason why people may believe that actions are freely chosen rather than determined: they attribute randomness in behavior to free will. Experiment 1 found that participants who were prompted to perform a random sequence of actions experienced their behavior as more freely chosen than those who were prompted to perform a det...

Compassion for one reduces punishment for another