Folk psychology’s primary function is coordinating group roles, not predicting individual minds.

Evidence

From the evo-devo perspective proposed here, folk psychology might be extended to dyadic interaction, but its primary function is the coordination of roles, activities, and identities within and between groups. (Coordination has been mistaken as a claim about altruism, cooperation, or prosociality. Its use is intended as a neutral descriptive term: even the most heinous violence between groups requires considerable coordination for attack and defense.) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the standard philosophical framing of folk psychology as a theory for predicting beliefs and desires; connects to collective intentionality work (Searle) and shared agency.