「がる」と「と思っている」の違いは何ですか

例えば、

> その地方の人々はこの宝物が珍しがっている
>
> その地方の人々はこの宝物が珍しいと思っている
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grammar word-choice verbs
「がる」と「と思っている」の違いがありますか
I will keep it simple to make it easy to understand. I am sure someone else
can provide a more detailed answer.

「XXXがっている」 is used to express that someone currently seems or appears to be
XXX, or feels XXX.

  * 怖がっている ＞＞＞ Appears to be scared 
  * 嫌がっている ＞＞＞ Seems to hate something
  * 欲しがっている ＞＞＞ Appears to want something 
  * 珍しがっている ＞＞＞ Appears to find something curious

「思っている」 means that someone thinks a certain way.

An easy way to distinguish the two is that 「がっている」 is more about observation
of one's state of emotion, whereas 「思っている」 presumes how one is thinking.
However, this is not an exact distinction and there will be cases where this
does not necessarily apply.
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The main difference between がる and 思う is that がる is used when **describing how
other people** think/feel (or appear to think/feel).

がる cannot be used about the speaker. The point is that you can never know
exactly what someone else is actually thinking or feeling, even if it may seem
obvious. So in general, 思う is avoided when the speaker is talking about how
others think/feel. Instead, がる is used to indicate what the speaker believes
they are thinking/feeling, based on appearances.

From the speaker's point of view,

僕は新しい車が欲しいです  
is correct, but

トムは新しい車が欲しいです  
is **not** correct because the speaker can't be 100% positive that Tom
actually wants a new car. Therefore, the speaker uses がる to indicate what
appears to be case, i.e. that Tom seems to want a new car. And accordingly...

トムは新しい車を欲しがっています  
is the correct way to state this from the speaker's point of view.
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