A Novel Way to Measure Theory of Mind: Endorsing Beliefs About Individual Differences in Agreement With Empirical Findings Predicts Self Reported Cognitive Empathy, Autism, and Schizotypy, and Separates Cognitive Empathy from Social Skill & Motivation
A Novel Way to Measure Theory of Mind: Endorsing Beliefs About Individual Differences in Agreement With Empirical Findings Predicts Self Reported Cognitive Empathy, Autism, and Schizotypy, and Separates Cognitive Empathy from Social Skill & Motivation Conway et al. (2020) reported that performance on a task reflecting how well individuals understand how different people would act and think based on their personality indicates theory of mind and intelligence. If this is the case, then assuming they are accurate, generalized beliefs about individual differences reflecting statistical findings should be associated with theory of mind as well. People who are interested in psychology tend to have higher levels of cognitive empathy (Svedholm-Häkkinen & Lindeman 2015), and it would be expected that people high in cognitive empathy would be better at generating accurate hypotheses about people's minds and would have a higher drive to create such hypotheses, just as those high in sy