{"pk":28111,"title":"Evidence for evaluations of knowledge prior to belief","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigate the relationship between evaluations of knowl-edge and belief in human adult theory of mind, and provideevidence that evaluations of knowledge are made without priorevaluations of belief. Our studies find that (1) people can ac-curately evaluate others’ knowledge before they evaluate theirbeliefs; (2) this pattern cannot be not explained by pragmaticdifferences; (3) it occurs cross-linguistically and unlikely tobe accounted for by differences in word frequency, and (4) italso generalizes to the larger class of factive and non-factiveattitudes (to which knowledge and belief respectively belong).Together, these studies demonstrate that human adults can as-cribe knowledge without first ascribing a belief state. Moregenerally, they lend support to the view that knowledge repre-sentations are a distinctive and basic way in which we makesense of others’ minds.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"knowledge; belief; theory of mind; factive atti-tudes; non-factive attitudes; False Belief; knowledge first"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dp0j198","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Phillips","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"","last_name":"Knobe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Yale","department":""},{"first_name":"Brent","middle_name":"","last_name":"Strickland","name_suffix":"","institution":"Institut Jean Nicod","department":""},{"first_name":"Pauline","middle_name":"","last_name":"Armary","name_suffix":"","institution":"Institut Jean Nicod","department":""},{"first_name":"Fiery","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cushman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28111/galley/17771/download/"}]}