News tagged with theory of mind


The brain recruits its own decision-making circuits to simulate how other people make decisions

A team of researchers led by Hiroyuki Nakahara and Shinsuke Suzuki of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has identified a set of brain structures that are critical for predicting how other people make decisions.

Neuroscience created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Belief in God associated with ability to 'mentalize'

Belief in God or other higher powers may be crucially linked to humans' cognitive ability to infer other peoples' mental states, called "theory of mind" or "mentalizing," according to research published May 30 in the open ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

New research focuses on teenage mind

Carla Sharp, an associate professor and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab in clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH), became interested in the way people think, how they organize thoughts, execute ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast