corresponding to a particular perceptual hypothesis. For social perception, this means a hypothesis about another’s mental states. This implies a high degree of reciprocity. My best model of your mental states will include a model of how you model my mental states. In other words, I can only understand what’s in your mind if I try to understand how you are perceiving the contents of my mind. It is in this way that we perceive ourselves refracted through the minds of others. This is what the social self is all about, and these socially nested predictive perceptions are an important part of the
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