Cane, James E., Ferguson, Heather J., Douchkov, Michelle, Wright, Daniel (2014) False Belief Reasoning Ability and Empathy: Evidence of a Relationship From the N400. In: 2014 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:46023)
The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided. |
Abstract
Interpreting others’ actions
relies on an understanding of their current mental state. Here
we report a false belief study using ERPs where participants
(N=28) read contexts that described a character having a true
(TB) or false belief (FB) about an object’s location. A target
sentence described where that character would look for
the object - including a sentence-final noun that was either
consistent or inconsistent with the character’s belief. When
the character held a TB about the object’s location, the N400
waveform was more negative-going for belief inconsistent
vs. consistent critical words [t=2.79, p<.01]. However, the
opposite pattern was found when the character held a FB
about the object’s location [t=-2.39, p<.03]. Intriguingly,
analyses between the N400 inconsistency effect and empathy
scores showed a significant correlation for FB (r=-.51, p<.003)
but not TB, indicating that high empathisers successfully
interpreted events according to the character’s FB, while low
empathisers interpreted events egocentrically.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Poster) |
---|---|
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Heather Ferguson |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2014 20:14 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:29 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/46023 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
- Export to:
- RefWorks
- EPrints3 XML
- BibTeX
- CSV
- Depositors only (login required):