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Julian De Freitas

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Open access Aug 2026

Recursive mentalizing and public salience in the perception of common knowledge

Significance Coordinating actions requires common knowledge: not just knowing something, but knowing that others know it, and so on. This seems impossible for finite minds, yet humans coordinate on scales from couples to countries. We propose people achieve coordination by tracking a few layers of who knows what who el...

Julian De Freitas, Yu-Hui Huang, Steven Pinker · Proceedings of the National... · 0 citations

Review Sep 2026

Mourning the loss of AI companions.

Julian De Freitas, Noah Castelo, A. K. Uğuralp et al. · Nature Human Behaviour · 3 citations