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The choices of different explanations for intentional behavior ( reasons, belief reasons, etc.
) indicate particular psychological functions.
Reasons, for example, appear to reflect ( among other things ) psychological closeness.
People increase reason explanations ( relative to CHR explanations ) when they explain their own rather than another person's behavior ( Malle et al., 2007 ), when they portray another person in a positive light ( Malle et al., 2007 ), and when they explain behaviors of nonhuman agents for whom they have ownership and affection ( e. g., a pet fish ; Kiesler, Lee, & Kramer, 2006 ).
Conversely, people use fewer reasons and more CHR explanations when explaining behaviors of collectives or aggregate groups ( O ' Laughlin & Malle, 2002 ).
Actor-observer asymmetries can therefore be seen as part of a broader continuum of psychological distance people have to various kinds of minds ( their own, others ', groups ', animals ' etc.
).
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