“…Theory of mind is divided in to cognitive and affective components; where cognitive theory of mind involves the inference of other people's thoughts and beliefs, affective theory of mind (aToM) involves making inferences about others' emotions (Shamay-Tsoory et al, 2010). This is an important distinction because adolescents with CU traits show the ability for cognitive theory of mind (Roberts et al, 2020), but, when compared to typically developing peers, they demonstrate impairments in aToM during complex emotions (Sharp & Vanwoerden, 2014;Sharp et al, 2015;Tillem et al, 2020). Complex emotions (e.g., nervousness, boredom, and shame) are more nuanced than basic emotions (e.g., happy, sad, and scared) (Baron- Cohen et al, 1997;Ekman, 1992) and require more cognitive resources to process (Yates et al, 2010) because their subtlety requires monitoring contextually relevant social information (Barrett et al, 2011).…”