ABSTRACT
Table 7.1 shows how a person might understand a social context, or the judgment a person might reach about how someone else is understanding that context. When I write about social perceptions and misperceptions in this chapter, I mean the subjective framing of social context within the taxonomy of the box. On the evidence of Chapter 6, it makes sense to consider the possibility that social intuitions, not just individual intuitions, might sometimes be governed by what turn out to be adverse defaults. Parallel to what was seen in the context of responses to logically simple but cognitively difficult puzzles, misunderstandings as well as accurate understandings of social situations might occur. That would open the door to difficulties in reaching or sustaining cooperation which are invisible to the parties involved, as in Chapter 6 neglect defaults invisible to choosers can sometimes yield choices that the chooser herself, on reflection, comes to see as transparently unsound.
