Attribution of mental states is fundamental to our engagement with fiction. Crucially, its social content depends on mental states recursively “embedded” within each other; for instance, when a person doesn’t want other people to know about her intentions. Given that some characters seem to be consistently capable of embedding mental states on a higher level than others, this essay reviews factors that may influence authors’ constructions of such mindreading hierarchies as well as their reversals. The argument focuses on the reversal scenes in films Goodbye Lenin, The Lives of Others, and Never Look Away, and on prosocial emotions evoked by their depiction of a more equitable distribution of a presumably valuable and scarce resource, that is, access to other people's minds.

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不要太擅长读懂别人的想法

心理状态的归因对于我们阅读小说至关重要。至关重要的是，它的社会内容取决于递归地“嵌入”彼此的心理状态。例如，当一个人不想让别人知道她的意图时。鉴于某些角色似乎始终能够比其他角色在更高的层次上嵌入心理状态，本文回顾了可能影响作者构建这种读心层次结构及其逆转的因素。争论的焦点集中在电影《再见列宁》、《他人的生活》和《永不移开》中的反转场景，以及它们对一种可能有价值和稀缺资源的更公平分配的描述所引发的亲社会情感，即获得他人的资源。头脑。