The Cultural Evolution of Mentalising

心智化的文化演变

• 批准号: FT230100296
• 负责人: Dr Joseph Watts
• 金额: $ 53.45万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT230100296
• 关键词: Cultural; Evolution; Mentalising

Thinking about mental states, such as beliefs, desires and intentions, is a universally important human ability known as mentalising. This project aims to use new cross-cultural databases and computational comparative methods to study five ways that mentalising practices vary across world cultures. The findings of this research have the potential to provide the first systematic overview of how mentalising practices vary globally as well as reveal the historical and social processes that shape the diverse ways that people think about the mind. Benefits of this knowledge include a more culturally sound basis for future developments in community-focused professions such as education, community development and counselling.

思考精神状态，如信仰、欲望和意图，是一种普遍重要的人类能力，被称为心智化。该项目旨在使用新的跨文化数据库和计算比较方法来研究世界文化中思维化实践的五种不同方式。这项研究的发现有可能提供第一个系统的概述，说明思维实践在全球范围内是如何变化的，并揭示了塑造人们思维方式的历史和社会过程。这种知识的好处包括，为教育、社区发展和咨询等以社区为重点的专业今后的发展奠定了更牢固的文化基础。