Naïve Psychology: Ten Good Reasons not to Stop at Appearances
Advances in Social Sciences and Management June 16, 2026 Edoardo Casiglia
Human beings navigate daily life by relying on a set of implicit assumptions about reality, assumptions so deeply ingrained as to appear self-evident. This paper examines ten of these assumptions, collectively termed naïve psychology, and demonstrates that each of them, when subjected to rigorous scientific and philosophical scrutiny, proves to be fundamentally mistaken. The ten beliefs...