Brain imaging is the ultimate test of the diametric model of the mind because it can directly image activity in parts of the brain known to be involved with mentalism, notably the medial prefrontal ...

I recently came across a new (at least to me) term for social perspective-taking or theory of mind: mentalization. Midgley et al. (2017) use this terminology while working and writing in the ...

Activity in the self-related, mentalizing, and positive valuation regions of the brain combine unconsciously in our thoughts to determine what we want to read and share, such that brain scans from a ...

People regularly engage in sophisticated 'mentalizing' (i.e. guessing the intentions or beliefs of others) whenever they convince, teach, deceive, and so on. Researchers have now demonstrated the laws ...

In people with high mentalizing ability, increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol decreased donations; cortisol had no effect on people with low mentalizing ability. The researchers could ...

The capability to reflect on their own mental state and that of others continues to develop throughout adolescence, with mentalizing scores varying by gender and personality traits, according to a new ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.