Our new paper with @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Abstract. The capacity to represent the mental states of other individuals, known as ‘mindreading’ or ‘theory of mind’, is key to successful social predict