This special issue reports the findings of the Mind and Spirit project. We ask whether different understandings of ‘mind’, broadly construed, might shape the ways that people attend to and interpret thoughts and other mental events – and whether their judgements affect their experience of (what they take to be) gods and spirits. We argue in this collection that there are indeed cultural differences in local theories of minds, in the way social worlds draws the line between interior and exterior, and that these differences do affect the way people sense invisible others. This introduction lays out the ideas that inspired the project and the methods that we used. This is the first report on our work.

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心灵与精神：关于精神表征与精神体验的比较理论

本期特刊报告了“心灵与精神”项目的发现。我们询问，对广义的“思维”的不同理解是否会影响人们参与和解释思想及其他精神事件的方式，以及他们的判断是否会影响他们对神灵的体验。我们在该系列中主张，当地的心理理论确实存在文化差异，社交世界在内部和外部之间划清界线，并且这些差异确实会影响人们感觉他人看不见的方式。本简介列出了启发该项目的想法以及我们使用的方法。这是关于我们工作的第一份报告。