Using fiction to assess mental state understanding: A new task for assessing theory of mind in adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Dodell Feder, David ^a   Lincoln, Sarah Hope ^a   Coulson, Joseph P ^b   Hooker, Christine I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISTEMOLOGY; FEMALE; FICTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892419435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081279     Document Type: Article

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