Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Research suggests that the ability to understand one’s own and others’ minds, or mentalizing, is a key factor for mental health. Most studies have focused the attention on the association between global measures of mentalizing and specific disorders.
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A pilot randomized controlled study of a brief mentalizing enhancement intervention for borderline personality disorder [PDF]
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion DysregulationBackground Impairments in mentalizing, the capacity for understanding mental states, are central to borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study examined a brief mentalizing intervention aiming to enhance the capacity and motivation for mentalizing ...
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Neural Networks Mediating High-Level Mentalizing in Patients With Right Cerebral Hemispheric Gliomas
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 Mentalizing is the ability to understand others’ mental state through external cues. It consists of two networks, namely low-level and high-level metalizing.
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Differential associations between mentalizing dimensions and psychopathy subtypes: the moderating role of borderline personality traits [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionPsychopathy comprises primary and secondary subtypes with distinct affective–interpersonal profiles. Mentalizing, i.e., the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ mental states, may help explain this heterogeneity. This study tested how
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Evolving brain function and connectivity patterns during mentalizing in children and adults [PDF]
Communications BiologyMentalizing, the ability to infer others’ thoughts and intentions, relies on a network of brain regions whose functional connectivity changes across development.
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The common structure of mentalizing. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe primary goal of this research was to investigate the common factor structure of mentalizing by combining items from pre-existing validated tools, cross-validating the resulting structure, and exploring its associations with relevant constructs. Three
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Mentalizing impairments across 11 psychiatric conditions: A transdiagnostic systematic review and network meta-analysis of tasks with static illustrations [PDF]
European PsychiatryBackground Impairments in mentalizing, or theory of mind, occur across psychiatric disorders. Static illustrations are widely used to assess mentalizing due to their simplicity, and they allow assessment of specific cognitive processes.
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Patients with schizophrenia have difficulties in cognitive and affective mentalizing which is manifested by excessive (‘overmentalizing’) or defective (‘undermentalizing’) attribution of mental states.
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Cue Sources and Cue Utilization Patterns of Social Mentalizing during Two-Person Interactions
Journal of Intelligence, 2023 Social mentalizing plays a crucial role in two-person interactions. Depending on the target of inference and the content being inferred, social mentalizing primarily exists in two forms: first-order mentalizing and second-order mentalizing.
Wenwu Dai, Zhaolan Li, Ning Jia
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‘Rich’ and ‘poor’ in mentalizing: Do expert mentalizers exist?
PLoS ONE, 2021 Mentalization theory is concerned with the capacity to notice, and make sense of, thoughts and feelings in self and others. This development may be healthy or impaired and therefore, by extension, it may be theorized that expertise in mentalizing can ...
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