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  • Mindreading and Social Status

    Author(s):
    Lisa Zunshine (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, LLC East Asian, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Social classes, Race, Literature, Socialist realism, Cognitive science
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Austen, Measure for Measure, Dream of the Red Chamber, sociocognitive complexity, Cognitive science, Class, Gender
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/5jr1-2e25
    Abstract:
    Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger social positions. (In fact, those in superior social position may assert their status by refusing to read mental states of others.) This essay shows that writers can intuitively manipulate their characters’ sociocognitive complexity, by either following or subverting these real-life dynamics, often figured along the lines of class, race, and gender.
    Notes:
    This essay appeared in the volume _Further Reading_ (Oxford UP, 2020), edited by Matthew Rubery and Leah Price. More information at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/further-reading-9780198809791?cc=gb&lang=en&.
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    Publisher:
    Oxford University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2020
    Book Title:
    Further Reading
    Author/Editor:
    Matthew Rubery and Leah Price
    Chapter:
    22
    Page Range:
    257 - 270
    ISBN:
    9780198809791
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    9 months ago
    License:
    Attribution

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