Mind-reading ability: Beliefs and performance

Realo, Anu; Allik, Jüri; Nõlvak, Aire; Valk, Raivo; Ruus, Tuuli; Schmidt, Monika; Eilola, Tiina M.

doi:10.1016/s0092-6566(03)00021-7

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“…Recent work by Realo et al (2003) revolves around a similar theme. Realo and colleagues analyzed the structure of perceivers' beliefs about their ability to intuit others' traits, mental states, roles/status, and future behaviors.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Ickes (1993), Davis and Kraus (1997), and Realo et al (2003) found weak or absent links between self-perceived performance and actual performance in empathic accuracy. However, these reports of ''non-relationships'' do not reveal whether those least skilled in empathic accuracy tend to substantially overestimate their abilities.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…A single structure emerged, suggesting that perceivers' chronic self-views generalized across these domains. However, these self-views were entirely unpredictive of actual performance on a number of social judgment tasks, including inferring emotions from pictures of faces and speech as well as judging traits from brief videos of interviews with targets (Realo et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While Ehrlinger and Dunning (2003) and Realo et al (2003) have considered chronic self-views in particular domains (e.g., beliefs about logical reasoning ability), they have not examined whether global self-concepts may be at work. Recent research suggests that narcissism might be seen as the global chronic selfview about one's competence relative to others (see, e.g., Morf & Rhodewalt, 2001 and adjacent commentaries).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…interpersonal sensitivity where a number of researchers (e.g., Davis & Kraus, 1997;Ickes, 1993;Realo et al, 2003) have found weak or absent connections between people's confidence in their empathic abilities and their actual success in inferring another person's mental states.…”

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In this paper, we examine the relationship between people's actual interpersonal sensitivity (such as their ability to identify deception and to infer intentions and emotions) and their perceptions of their own sensitivity. Like prior scholars, we find the connection is weak or non-existent and that most people overestimate their social judgment and mind-reading skills. Unlike previous work, however, we show new evidence about who misunderstands their sensitivity and why. We find that those who perform the worst in social judgment and mindreading radically overestimate their relative competence. We also find origins of these self-estimates in general narcissistic tendencies toward self-aggrandizement. We discuss evidence from two studies, one involving the Interpersonal Perception Task (the IPT-15) and another focusing on inferences about partners after a faceto-face negotiation exercise. In both cases, actual performance did not predict self-estimated performance but narcissism did.

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The impact of romantic relationships on deception detection: Exploring the gender differences and the mediating role of mentalizing

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In evolution, romantic relationships serve as the foundation for breeding and producing offspring. The ability to detect deception in these relationships can safeguard the investment and cultivation of descendants, leading to greater chances of survival and reproduction. However, barely any research has been carried out within this domain. The current study investigated the preliminary relationship between romantic relationships, mentalizing ability, and deception detection ability through an empirical experiment. Participants were primed by their romantic experiences and neutral experiences, and then went through a Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RTM) task and the deception detecting task for real person crime‐type videos. Results showed that romantic relationships can improve participants' emotion recognition ability toward negative emotions, and females performed better in the deception detection task than males did. Most importantly, romantic relationships can improve participants' deception detection ability through the mediator of mentalizing ability. Though gender difference was not statistically significant in the RTM task, the results lay a solid foundation for further investigation into females' mentalizing ability and disclose the evolutionary meaning of romantic relationships.

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Predicting Creativity Based on the Facets of the Theoretical Intellect Framework

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The present study investigates how the construct intellect, according to the Theoretical Intellect Framework (TIF), predicts creativity. The TIF is a theoretical model describing the structure of the construct intellect, a sub-dimension of the Big Five domain openness to experience. People (N = 2709) from two sub-samples (undergraduate students and Amazon MTurkers) completed one of three creativity tasks (self-reported, remote associates, or rated photo caption) and the Intellect Scale. The results support hypotheses derived from the TIF, as the operation Create, rather than the operations Think or Learn, significantly and in some cases uniquely predicted the selfreported creativity indicators. Creativity indicators with a strong cognitive load (remote associates test and rated photo caption), however, were predicted by the operation Think. Results are discussed with regards to the nomological net of the operation Create and the construct validity of the creativity assessments. We provide implications for applied purposes and call for further examination of the TIF with additional creativity measures.

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Mind-reading ability: Beliefs and performance

Cited by 97 publications

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Mind-Reading and Metacognition: Narcissism, not Actual Competence, Predicts Self-Estimated Ability

The impact of romantic relationships on deception detection: Exploring the gender differences and the mediating role of mentalizing

Predicting Creativity Based on the Facets of the Theoretical Intellect Framework

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