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- Title
Perceiving agency.
- Authors
Westfall, Mason
- Abstract
When we look around us, some things look "alive," others do not. What is it to "look alive"—to perceive animacy? Empirical work supports the view that animacy is genuinely perceptual. We should construe perception of animacy as perception of agents and behavior. This proposal explains how static and dynamic animacy cues relate, and explains how animacy perception relates to social cognition more broadly. Animacy perception draws attention to objects that are apt to be well‐understood folk psychologically, enabling us to marshal our folk psychological resources efficiently.
- Subjects
ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL perception; AGENT (Philosophy)
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p847
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12399