A prototypical task used in ToM research has been the "false belief task", which requires the subject to predict where a character will look for an object that has been displaced by another character unbeknownst to the first character.
And a blood libel is the false belief that Jews used the blood of Christian children in baking matza -- a lie for which we died by the tens of thousands -- not Sarah Palin's attempt to deflect criticism.
So too, we try to find that extra property of the false belief that converts it from a false belief into a delusion.
Figure 11 shows the design matrix for the false belief dataset that consists of five conditions.
The way to resolve this uncertainty, Dennett proposed, was the false belief task.
In an early paper, Heinz Wimmer and Joseph Perner (1983) describe what is now usually called the "false belief test".
A total of 9 false belief probes about the character's false beliefs were presented in the trials corresponding to the false belief command trials in the task of applying others' false beliefs.
In our task of understanding others' false beliefs, the false belief probes were repeatedly presented to participants.
The researcher used the false name Jordan.
Think about the false beliefs we hang on to being an infected thumb.
