Does theory of mind depend on a capacity to reason about representations generally or on mechanisms selective for the processing of mental state representations? In four experiments, participants reasoned about beliefs (mental representations) and notes (non-mental, linguistic representations), which according to two prominent theories are closely matched representations because both are repres...

The present research provides the first direct assessment of fit diverse behaviors to putatively related personal and social values from Schwartz’s theory. Across three studies, we examined spatial representations value-related that were explicitly derived people’s mental values. Participants asked how similar each other various values, these judgments used specify multidimensional scaling solu...

: Mental health professionals are important actors in implementing public mental health policies and in shaping lay representations of mental illness. The research reported in this paper focuses on the social representations of mental illness held by these professionals in Britain and France. In interviews conducted with sixty mental health workers from a range of professional backgrounds the d...