Training social cognition: From imitation to Theory of Mind
Training social cognition: From imitation to Theory of Mind
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.004
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Bird, Geoffrey
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作者：
Santiesteban, Idalmis;White, Sarah;Bird, Geoffrey
在典型成年人中成功进行社会认知训练的证据很少。这项研究试图通过训练参与者模仿或抑制模仿来改善健康成年人的心理理论（TOM）和视觉视角。训练后二十四小时，所有参与者都完成了理论思维和视觉透视测试。接受过抑制模仿倾向训练的小组在视觉观点采择测试中表现出更好的表现，但在 ToM 测试中却没有表现出来。模仿训练和一般抑制训练都没有这种效果。这些结果支持了一种新颖的社会认知理论，该理论表明相同的自我他人歧视过程是模仿抑制和观点采择的基础。模仿、换位思考和思维导图都是亲社会的过程——我们与他人接触的方式。因此，令人惊讶的是，通过抑制模仿可以增强观点采择能力。想要了解另一个人，有时候我们需要的不是靠近，而是拉开。 (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
Evidence for successful socio-cognitive training in typical adults is rare. This study attempted to improve Theory of Mind (TOM) and visual perspective taking in healthy adults by training participants to either imitate or to inhibit imitation. Twenty-four hours after training, all participants completed tests of ToM and visual perspective taking. The group trained to inhibit their tendency to imitate showed improved performance on the visual perspective-taking test, but not the ToM test. Neither imitation training, nor general inhibition training, had this effect. These results support a novel theory of social cognition suggesting that the same self-other discrimination process underlies imitation inhibition and perspective taking. Imitation, perspective taking and ToM are all pro-social processes - ways in which we reach out to others. Therefore, it is striking that perspective taking can be enhanced by suppressing imitation; to understand another, sometimes we need, not to get closer, but to pull away. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.