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- Title
Sex differences in theory of mind: The on‐average female advantage on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.
- Authors
Baron‐Cohen, Simon; Radecki, Marcin A.; Greenberg, David M.; Warrier, Varun; Holt, Rosemary J.; Allison, Carrie
- Abstract
One of the most widely used ToM tasks is the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), recommended in the US National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria, and this is the measure that Dorris et al. employed. Are there on-average sex differences in theory of mind (ToM)? Dorris et al.1 report an important large-scale study of ToM, or cognitive empathy, defined as the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others in order to explain and predict behaviour.2 Developmental precursors of ToM are evident already between 9 to 15 months of age in joint attention behaviours and pretend play.
- Publication
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2022, Vol 64, Issue 12, p1440
- ISSN
0012-1622
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dmcn.15364