Limits on theory of mind use in adults.

By Boaz Keysar, Shuhong Lin, Dale J. Barr. Cognition, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Reflexively mindblind: Using theory of mind to interpret behavior requires effortful attention (2010, background): “Earlier studies with this task showed that even when people know what the director knows, they still interpret at least some of the instructions egocentrically (Epley, Morewedge, et al., 2004; Keysar et al., 2003).”
Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction (2004, result): “Any egocentric tendency in interpreting the instructions would be evidenced when participants consider objects that are visible only to them—exactly as participants did in previous experiments (Keysar, Barr, Balin, & Brauner, 2000; Keysar, Lin, & Barr, 2003 ).”
Talker-specific perceptual adaptation during online speech perception (2012, background): “This is consistent with arguments that talker-specific information guides interpretation of all spoken language (Brown-Schmidt, 2009 ; Dahan et al, 2008 ; Hanna, Tanenhaus, & Trueswell, 2003 ), and is not limited to cases in which routine interpretation processes fail to arrive at a contextually ”
Communication and miscommunication: The role of egocentric processes (2007, background): “Together, these findings suggest a systematic cause for miscommunication.”
Beyond common and privileged: Gradient representations of common ground in real-time language use (2012, background): “Much of this research has focused on relatively simple representations of whether a given piece of information is shared, or not (e.g., Barr, 2008; Brown-Schmidt et al., 2008; Hanna et al., 2003; Heller et al., 2008; Keysar et al., 2003; Nadig & Sedivy, 2002).”
Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions. (2009, background): “This process may require the intentional suppression of one’s own viewpoint (Keysar et al., 2003; Royzman et al., 2003; Van Boven and Loewenstein, 2003; Bernstein et al., 2004) in order to represent other people’s mental states (Frith and Frith, 2003) and take the other’s perspective (Decety and Jac”
The social brain in adolescence (2008, neutral): “It is a challenge therefore to design a task on which older children and adolescents do not perform at ceiling level (note that there is one recently developed ingenious mentalizing task on which even healthy adults make mistake”
The functional architecture of human empathy. (2004, neutral): “A series of experiments performed by Keysar, Lin, and Barr (2003) revealed that adult subjects exhibit a tendency to infer that others have the same knowledge (and beliefs) as they do, even when they are aware that the others have a different point of view.”
Theory of Mind Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: The Growing Complexity of Recursive Thinking Ability (2015, background): “However, even adults show some limitations in responding to theory of mind tasks (Epley, Keysar, Van Boven, & Gilovich, 2004; Keysar et al., 2003).”
Online usage of theory of mind continues to develop in late adolescence. (2010, methodology): “In order to test this hypothesis, and avoid ceiling effects in performance, we adapted a task developed by Keysar, Barr, Balin, and Brauner (2000) and Keysar, Lin, and Barr (2003) that showed that even adults have difficulty using theory of mind to guide behaviour.”
Using Theory of Mind to represent and take part in social interactions: Comparing individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls (2010, background): “It is thus surprising that the way people apply their ToM skills to social interactions has been largely ignored in developmental psychology (Frith, Happé, & Siddons, 1994; Keysar, Lin, & Barr, 2003; Klin, Jones, Schultz, & Volkmar, 2003).”
Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood (2006, background): “In their study of adults’ responses to another adult’s directions to move an object around a grid, Keysar, Lin, and Barr (2003) found that adults frequently took as the referent of the director’s utterance an object whose identity the director could not possibly have known.”
From social projection to social behaviour (2007, background): “As a consequence, they overestimate the effectiveness of their own communication (Keysar, Lin, & Barr, 2003 ).”