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The Group Mind Thesis—understood as the claim that groups as a whole can be the subjects of mental states—was a popular idea in the intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 2 For many scientists and philosophers of that period, it provided a succinct expression
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Theiner et al. (2010) studied this question.