Ed Bull
Most people assume everyone else thinks like them. They don’t. And your brain knows this - but only from around age 4. #Psychology #CognitiveScience #TheoryOfMind #Neuroscience #MentalHealth
Mar 14 at 9:16pmWeb
Show threadEd BullMar 14
Before that, children genuinely cannot conceive that another person holds a different belief. It’s called Theory of Mind, and its arrival is one of the most dramatic cognitive leaps in human development. The wild part? Some of us never fully develop it.
Show threadEd BullMar 14
And those who do still switch it off under stress — reverting to the assumption that everyone sees what we see, wants what we want, fears what we fear. Every argument that ever escalated? Probably this.