scholarly journals Black “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” task: The development of a task assessing mentalizing from black faces

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. e0221867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Handley ◽  
Jennifer T. Kubota ◽  
Tianyi Li ◽  
Jasmin Cloutier
Keyword(s):  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Black Faces

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Baron-Cohen ◽  
Therese Jolliffe ◽  
Catherine Mortimore ◽  
Mary Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

Fact or fiction?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Chlebuch ◽  
Thalia R. Goldstein ◽  
Deena Skolnick Weisberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

Abstract Many studies have claimed to find that reading fiction leads to improvements in social cognition. But this work has left open the critical question of whether any type of narrative, fictional or nonfictional, might have similar effects. To address this question, as well as to test whether framing a narrative as fiction matters, the current studies presented participants (N = 268 in Study 1; N = 362 in Study 2) with literary fiction texts, narrative nonfiction texts, expository nonfiction texts, or no texts. We tested their theory-of-mind abilities using the picture-based Reading the Mind in the Eyes task and a text-based test of higher-order social cognition. Reading anything was associated with higher scores compared to reading nothing, but the effects of framing and text type were inconsistent. These results suggest that prior claims regarding positive effects of reading fiction on mentalizing should be seen as tenuous; other mechanisms may be driving previously published effects.

Emotion recognition in body dysmorphic disorder: Application of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task

Body Image ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Buhlmann ◽  
Anna Winter ◽  
Norbert Kathmann
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Body Dysmorphic Disorder ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

Valence in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task.

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 623-634
Author(s):  
Chloe C. Hudson ◽  
Amanda L. Shamblaw ◽  
Kate L. Harkness ◽  
Mark A. Sabbagh
Keyword(s):  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals A Comparison of Children's Ability to Read Children's and Adults' Mental States in an Adaptation of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna van der Meulen ◽  
Simone Roerig ◽  
Doret de Ruyter ◽  
Pol van Lier ◽  
Lydia Krabbendam
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’: an fMRI study of adolescents with autism and their siblings

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (15) ◽  
pp. 3215-3227 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Holt ◽  
L. R. Chura ◽  
M.-C. Lai ◽  
J. Suckling ◽  
E. von dem Hagen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Multiple Thresholds ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Spectrum Condition ◽  
Sibling Control ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

Background.Mentalizing deficits are a hallmark of the autism spectrum condition (ASC) and a potential endophenotype for atypical social cognition in ASC. Differences in performance and neural activation on the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ task (the Eyes task) have been identified in individuals with ASC in previous studies.Method.Performance on the Eyes task along with the associated neural activation was examined in adolescents with ASC (n = 50), their unaffected siblings (n = 40) and typically developing controls (n = 40). Based on prior literature that males and females with ASC display different cognitive and associated neural characteristics, analyses were stratified by sex. Three strategies were applied to test for endophenotypes at the level of neural activation: (1) identifying and locating conjunctions of ASC–control and sibling–control differences; (2) examining whether the sibling group is comparable to the ASC or intermediate between the ASC and control groups; and (3) examining spatial overlaps between ASC–control and sibling–control differences across multiple thresholds.Results.Impaired behavioural performance on the Eyes task was observed in males with ASC compared to controls, but only at trend level in females; and no difference in performance was identified between sibling and same-sex control groups in both sexes. Neural activation showed a substantial endophenotype effect in the female groups but this was only modest in the male groups.Conclusions.Behavioural impairment on complex emotion recognition associated with mental state attribution is a phenotypic, rather than an endophenotypic, marker of ASC. However, the neural response during the Eyes task is a potential endophenotypic marker for ASC, particularly in females.

scholarly journals Mentalization within close relationships: The role of specific attachment style

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Błażej M. Bączkowski ◽  
Lidia Cierpiałkowska
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Attachment Quality ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

AbstractMentalization is a form of social cognition that enables to perceive and interpret human behaviour in terms of intentional mental states (Frith & Frith, 2003) and is influenced by social context (e.g., O’Connor and Hirsch, 1999). Hence, we examined mentalization related to specific attachment relationships (Bowlby, 1969; Fraley, 2007). This study involved 115 participants (85% female) who reported their relationship-specific (ECR-RS; Fraley et al., 2011) and global attachment styles (ECR; Brennan, Clark, Shaver, 1998), and perspective-taking tendency towards their attachment figures (IRI-PT subscale; Davis, 1983). Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task-Revised (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) was used as a proxy for mentalization disregarding relationships. The results showed that perspective-taking was associated with relationship-specific attachment avoidance (rs > -.29; all ps < .01) whereas global characteristics of mentalization were not related to attachment quality. Our findings indicate that the link between attachment quality and mentalization is relationship-specific.

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