Sean Laurent

My primary interests involve understanding how people think about and evaluate the contents of others' minds. This includes understanding the mechanisms that are used to achieve this goal, the qualities that help them do so more accurately, and the resulting evaluations that emerge as a function of understanding others' mental states. In particular, I am interested in how people make decisions about when to blame or praise others based on information about their mental states, and how people reason about complex concepts such as others goals and intentional actions.

August 2015