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1Psychology Department, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. david.gruening@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de.
Abstract:
I elaborate on Quilty-Dunn et al.'s integration of the language-of-thought hypothesis in social reasoning by outlining two discrepancies between the experimental paradigms referred to by the authors and the social world: Self-referential projection and deliberate thinking in experiments. Robust tests of the hypothesis in social reasoning should include observational, natural, and cross-cultural approaches.
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