{"pk":26127,"title":"Emotions in lay explanations of behavior","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Humans use rich intuitive theories to explain other people’sbehavior. Previous work in lay psychology of behavior havetended to treat emotion as causing primarily unintentional be-havior (e.g., being sad causes one to cry), neglecting how peo-ple incorporate emotions into explanations of rational, inten-tional actions. Here, we provide preliminary explorations intointegrating emotions into a theory of folk psychology. Specif-ically, we show that in the lay theory, people are willing toendorse emotions as causes of intentional actions. Moreover,people readily attribute beliefs and desires as explanations foremotional expressions. This work provides a first step in elabo-rating people’s rich understanding of emotions as an importantcomponent of intuitive social cognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Intuitive Psychology"},{"word":"emotions"},{"word":"Affective Cogni-tion"},{"word":"Explanations"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hr6b5f0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Desmond","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ong","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jamil","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zaki","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Noah","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Goodman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26127/galley/15763/download/"}]}