To communicate effectively, people must have a reasonably accurate idea about what specific other people know. An obvious starting point for building a model of what another knows is what one oneself knows, or thinks one knows. This article reviews evidence that people impute their own knowledge to others and that, although this serves them well in general, they often do so uncritically, with t...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Severe declines in regional biodiversity are accompanied by simultaneous loss knowledge about natural ecosystems traditional and non-traditional human societies (Aswani et al., 2018; Miller, 2005). Loss ecological raises concerns that it may undermine both our ability to manage interest willingness pro...

Interpersonal interaction plays an important role in organizational dynamics, and understanding these interaction networks is key for any organization, since they can be tapped to facilitate various organizational processes. The principal roadblock to studying organizational networks, however, has been the difficulty in collecting data about them. The approach of conducting surveys/interviews i...