Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire en Santé mentale de Québec and Département de Psychiatrie et neurosciences, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Psychol Assess. 2013 Mar;25(1):117-26. doi: 10.1037/a0029137. Epub 2012 Jun 25.
Mentalizing is an aspect of social cognition that is garnering increased interest. Although a wide variety of experimental tasks are available to measure mentalizing abilities in adults, the most widely used tasks typically focus on specific aspects of mentalizing, and mentalizing judgments are performed based on a limited set of information about the agent and the context. Here, we present the Eight Sources of Information Framework (8-SIF), a model that describes the sources of information that can contribute to mentalizing judgments both in real life and in the context of mentalizing tasks. This model is then used to systematically review and analyze the most classical mentalizing tasks, with a particular focus on the sources of information provided as a basis for mentalizing judgments in these tasks. Next, mentalizing tasks with improved ecological validity are also examined, highlighting the greater richness and diversity of the sources of information provided in such tasks relative to the most classical tasks. We believe that the 8-SIF is an important first step to increase awareness of the sources of information that can contribute to mentalizing judgments and to favor investigations of the potential impact of these sources of information on mentalizing performance in different populations.
心理化是社会认知的一个方面，越来越受到关注。虽然有各种各样的实验任务可以用来衡量成年人的心理化能力，但最广泛使用的任务通常侧重于心理化的特定方面，并且心理化判断是基于对主体和情境的有限信息集做出的。在这里，我们提出了八种信息源框架（8-SIF），该模型描述了可以促进现实生活中和心理化任务中心理化判断的信息源。然后，该模型用于系统地回顾和分析最经典的心理化任务，特别关注这些任务中提供的心理化判断的信息源。接下来，还检查了具有更高生态有效性的心理化任务，突出了这些任务中提供的信息源的丰富性和多样性相对于最经典任务的增加。我们相信，8-SIF 是提高对有助于心理化判断的信息源的认识的重要第一步，并有利于研究这些信息源对不同人群的心理化表现的潜在影响。
