Gabbatore Ilaria, Bosco Francesca M, Tirassa Maurizio
Department of Humanities, GIPSI Research Group, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Department of Psychology, GIPSI Research Group, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 23;15:1507298. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1507298. eCollection 2024.
If "theory of mind" is conceived as reasoning in a strict sense, then it can be said to be useful only at certain times; however, this leaves the rest of social cognition hardly comprehensible. If "theory of mind" is used instead to refer to a mentalist ontology and the consequent awareness that we ourselves and the others function on mental states, then we need new approaches that explain the flow of social experience. To illustrate these points, we outline the general conceptual framework that underlies most empirical studies of theory of mind and discuss their pros and cons; then, we discuss the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale, a tool developed to investigate the complexity of theory of mind, which adopts a different perspective and has been successfully tested on numerous populations.
如果“心理理论”被严格地视为一种推理,那么可以说它只在某些时候有用;然而,这使得社会认知的其他方面几乎难以理解。相反,如果“心理理论”被用来指代一种心理主义本体论以及随之而来的对我们自己和他人基于心理状态运作的意识,那么我们就需要新的方法来解释社会经验的流动。为了说明这些观点,我们概述了大多数心理理论实证研究背后的一般概念框架,并讨论了它们的优缺点;然后,我们讨论心理理论评估量表,这是一种为研究心理理论的复杂性而开发的工具,它采用了不同的视角,并已在众多人群中成功进行了测试。