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• How much mentalizing? In these studies it was just one or two layers down, but another economist, Rosemary Nagel, tried to see how deep people can go. She tried the following variation: pick a number from 0 to 100, but this time the prize goes to whoever’s guess is closest to two-thirds of the average of all the guesses. Try it yourself now, while assuming that all the other guessers are trying it too. The answer you should arrive at is 0. You could get there in either of two ways. The first is to sucessively rule out the impossible solutions. What’s the highest number that two-thirds of the average could be? If everyone else picked the highest possible number, 100, it would be 66.67, so the answer could not possibly be higher than that. Everyone else can figure that out too, so the highe... (查看原文)

  蛋奶星星 2025-10-18 23:04:45

• This common knowledge, I'll suggest, is well-suited to tuning and tweaking the coordination equilibria that underlie our social relationships. I'll conclude by turning to an expression that is displayed by the muscles of the face, but which also maybe explained as a coordination signal: the glower. They single out as the essense of humor things that are not really funny: engaging in play, signaling safety, violating expectations, breaching norms, blending concepts, flaunting intelligence, asserting superiority, encouraging affiliation, encrypting messages, resolving inconsistencies, releasing tension. All these experiences, to be sure, are sometimes associated with humor, but most often they happen without a trace of mirth.There must be some distinctive combination of mental events that ca... (查看原文)

  ZZ 2025-12-14 23:07:51

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