The article "Dimensions of Mind Perception" by Heather M. Gray, Kurt Gray, and Daniel M. Wegner explores the dimensions along which people perceive minds. Traditional views often assume that mind perception occurs on a single dimension, but this study challenges that notion by examining 2399 completed surveys from the Mind Survey Web site. The surveys involved 78 pairwise comparisons of 13 characters on five-point scales for 18 mental capacities and six personal judgments. The characters included humans, nonhuman animals, a dead woman, God, and a sociable robot. The researchers used principal components factor analysis to identify two primary dimensions: Experience and Agency. The Experience dimension accounted for 88% of the variance and included capacities such as hunger, fear, pain, pleasure, rage, desire, personality, consciousness, pride, embarrassment, and joy. The Agency dimension accounted for 8% of the variance and included capacities like self-control, morality, memory, emotion recognition, planning, communication, and thought. Personal judgments were related to these dimensions. Some judgments correlated with both Experience and Agency, suggesting that characters with more mind are valued more. However, other judgments showed differing correlations, with some related more to Agency and others to Experience. For example, the desire to avoid harming correlated more with Experience, while the deservingness of punishment correlated more with Agency. The findings suggest that mind perception is not a single-dimensional concept but involves two distinct dimensions that capture different aspects of morality. The study also examined individual differences in these dimensions, finding that beliefs about the afterlife and religious or political affiliations influenced perceptions of Agency and Experience.The article "Dimensions of Mind Perception" by Heather M. Gray, Kurt Gray, and Daniel M. Wegner explores the dimensions along which people perceive minds. Traditional views often assume that mind perception occurs on a single dimension, but this study challenges that notion by examining 2399 completed surveys from the Mind Survey Web site. The surveys involved 78 pairwise comparisons of 13 characters on five-point scales for 18 mental capacities and six personal judgments. The characters included humans, nonhuman animals, a dead woman, God, and a sociable robot. The researchers used principal components factor analysis to identify two primary dimensions: Experience and Agency. The Experience dimension accounted for 88% of the variance and included capacities such as hunger, fear, pain, pleasure, rage, desire, personality, consciousness, pride, embarrassment, and joy. The Agency dimension accounted for 8% of the variance and included capacities like self-control, morality, memory, emotion recognition, planning, communication, and thought. Personal judgments were related to these dimensions. Some judgments correlated with both Experience and Agency, suggesting that characters with more mind are valued more. However, other judgments showed differing correlations, with some related more to Agency and others to Experience. For example, the desire to avoid harming correlated more with Experience, while the deservingness of punishment correlated more with Agency. The findings suggest that mind perception is not a single-dimensional concept but involves two distinct dimensions that capture different aspects of morality. The study also examined individual differences in these dimensions, finding that beliefs about the afterlife and religious or political affiliations influenced perceptions of Agency and Experience.