Are adult mentalizing abilities associated with mind-mindedness?

Running Head: MENTALIZING AND MIND-MINDEDNESS

Maternal mind-mindedness and feeding

Maternal mind-mindedness, or the tendency to view the child as a mental agent, has been shown to predict sensitive and responsive parenting behavior. As yet the role of mind-mindedness has not been explored in the context of feeding interactions. This study evaluates the relations between maternal mind-mindedness at 6 months of infant age and subsequently observed maternal sensitivity and feedi...

Executive dysfunction in schizophrenia and its association with mentalizing abilities.

INTRODUCTION Patients with schizophrenia have been found impaired in important aspects of their basic and social cognition. Our aim in this study is to explore the relationship between executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) deficiencies in patients that suffer the illness. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-two Spanish-speaking inpatients and 22 healthy controls matched in age, sex, educa...

Superior mentalizing abilities of female patients with schizophrenia.

Mentalizing abilities are severely disrupted in patients with schizophrenia, but gender-related differences in this domain are virtually unexplored. Given the importance of these abilities in understanding psychopathology, social functioning and outcome, this study aimed to examine the mentalizing abilities of male and female patients with schizophrenia. The cognitive and affective mentalizing ...

Theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia: is mentalizing delayed?

OBJECTIVE Functional imaging studies have used numerous neurocognitive designs to investigate brain activation during theory of mind (ToM) tasks in patients with schizophrenia. The majority of studies asks participants to retrospectively attribute mental states to others. We used a novel animated task to investigate implicit mentalizing online. Because behavioral studies have revealed slower To...