In social dilemmas, negotiations, and other forms of strategic interaction, mind-reading – intuiting another party’s preferences and intentions – has an important impact on an actor’s own behavior. In this paper, we present a model of how perceivers shift between social projection (using...

How do people react to those who have helped them? The authors propose that a recipient's evaluation of a helper's intentions and the recipient's own attitudes about future interactions with the helper depend partly on the recipient's perceptions of how the helper decided to assist: on the basis...