Beyond folk-sociology: Extending Pietraszewski's model to large-group dynamics

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Jul 7:45:e99. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21001278.

Abstract

Folk-sociology is a set of intuitive assumptions that organize our spontaneous theories about society, including the notion that social groups are agent-like. Pietraszewski's model may explain this folk-sociological assumption in an elegant way. However, large-scale group dynamics include features that seem to escape agent-like descriptions. Therefore, one may want to find out whether the "event-grammar" proposed here can account for these features.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Sociology*