Research psychologists have found that all normal humans are geniuses at reading the intentions of others, whereby they evaluate, gossip, proselytize, bond, cooperate and control.
The paintings were soon discovered in a public bathroom a short distance from the museum, however, with a handwritten note that read "The intention was not to steal.
Theory of mind is the ability to attribute and represent other's mental states or beliefs and intentions or to "read their mind" ("predict the goal of the observed action and, thus, to "read" the intention of the acting individual" — from Decety and Grezes 2006).
The production is quietly steeped in the paranoia generated by Kevin's trying to read the intentions of people who control his career.
This is not the way we read the intentions of the E.P.A. administrator, Lisa Jackson, who has promised that whatever regulations she proposes will be gradual, cost-effective and affect only the largest facilities.
Angela Tinwell, a technology researcher at the University of Bolton, in England, studies the Uncanny Valley, and she thinks that our discomfort stems from our reliance on nonverbal communication to read the intentions of others.
In the ridiculously partisan melting pot of Seville's Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, where travelling Romanian fans were outnumbered by up to 350-1 (200 had been cleared to travel by the Securitate, but some 40 defected before the match), long arms and a seemingly unerring psychic ability to read the intentions of the Barcelona penalty-takers he faced were all he had.
Each morning, I read the intentions and allow inspiration to fuel my day.
Given these realities, businesswomen need to power up their interpersonal radar to "read" the intentions and behaviors not only of individual men, but confederations of men -- who might or might not like each other yet will nevertheless protect one another from a common threat -- if it is in their interest.
Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, however, stayed on to co-finance the film with Warner Bros. Johnny Depp was the only actor Burton considered for the role, who signed on without reading the script under the intention of going with a completely different approach than what Gene Wilder did in the 1971 film adaptation.
But even with the help of psychologists putting together profiles of dictators and other major players for our intelligence services, Bush and his inner circle were extraordinarily obtuse about reading the motivations and the intentions of friends and foes.
