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1Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Tennessee.
Collective cognition struggles with defining shared psychological states. This study proposes collective meta-attention as a solution for tracking shared experiences, offering a more efficient and reliable method than direct attention to multiple minds.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Social Psychology
- Philosophy of Mind
Background:
- The field of collective cognition lacks a clear consensus on how psychological states are shared among individuals.
- While social alignment mechanisms are understood, meta-cognitive representations of 'sharedness' remain ambiguous.
- Directly attending to the attention of multiple individuals presents significant cognitive challenges.
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