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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

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Pascal Boyer*
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Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. pboyer@wustl.edu http://www.pascalboyer.net
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e99
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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