Majid Saffarinia; rogayeh mohammadi; Samira Hasanzadeh
Volume 5, Issue 2 , November 2016, , Pages 120-135
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Aim: The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between mindfulness and mind reading ability and decision-making styles of rational, avoidant, dependent, and intuitive university students. Method: For this purpose, 182 students (71 males and 111 females) were selected from Bonab universities ...
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Aim: The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between mindfulness and mind reading ability and decision-making styles of rational, avoidant, dependent, and intuitive university students. Method: For this purpose, 182 students (71 males and 111 females) were selected from Bonab universities via multi-stage random sampling and completed the questionnaires of Scott and Bruce's Decision-Making Styles Inventory (1995), Kentucky’s Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS), and Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). Results: According to the findings, there was positive relationship between mindfulness and mind reading ability and rational and intuitive decision-making styles. Besides, there was a significant negative relationship with dependent decision-making style. There was also significant negative relationship between mind reading ability and avoidant decision-making style. In addition, rational and dependent decision-making styles were predictable by both mindfulness and mind reading variables. But, avoidant and intuitive styles were only predicted by mind reading ability. Conclusion: According to the findings, it seems that people's decision making can be improved by mindfulness skill training and strengthening the ability of mind reading.
saeed farmani; Rahim Badri; Zahra Shafiei
Volume 4, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 67-83
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Aims: Recent research suggests that in some conditions people process others’ perspective without any necessity. Also, some studies indicatethat we compute our perspective initially during mindreading. The automatic mindreading led to some dispute and the processes involved in mindreading are these ...
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Aims: Recent research suggests that in some conditions people process others’ perspective without any necessity. Also, some studies indicatethat we compute our perspective initially during mindreading. The automatic mindreading led to some dispute and the processes involved in mindreading are these days the focus of attention of researchers. This study aimed at determining the limitations of automatic mindreading with respect to others’ perspective. Method: For this purpose, a within subject project was performed. By accessible sampling method, 25 high school students were selected from Sahand Cityin 2013-2014 academic year. The Participants were tested by an instrument made by authors that measuredthe speed and accuracy of mind reading. Results: The results from repeated measure revealed that the main effects of perspective type (P=0.007), judgment type (P=0.001) and the interactive effect of these two (P=0.001) are significant. Furthermore, the results of pairwise comparisons showed that judgments in equal perspective situation are faster than similar (P=0.02) and incomplete (P=0.005) situations. Conclusion: According to the results, itseems that equal perspective is an optimized situation for mindreading. The results have some challenges for Apply’s theory.
Vahid Nejati; Hadi Naserpoor; Abbas Zabihzadeh; Mana Rashidi
Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2015, , Pages 7-18
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Introduction: There are incongruent evidences about the lack of theory of mind as one of the causal hypotheses in psychopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of theory of mind and empathy in convicts of penal courts and comparing them with normal individuals. Method: The research ...
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Introduction: There are incongruent evidences about the lack of theory of mind as one of the causal hypotheses in psychopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of theory of mind and empathy in convicts of penal courts and comparing them with normal individuals. Method: The research design of this study was ex post facto. The participants were 40 convicts of penal courts and 40 people of general population selected by convenience sampling method. Baron Cohen’s Reading Mind from Eyes Test (RMET) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) were used as research tools. MANOVA was used for comparing the differences of the two groups in theory of mind and empathy. Results: The results of MANOVA showed significant differences in the ability of mind reading in the two groups; as the functions of convicts of penal courts in mind reading test were significantly lower than their normal counterparts. No significant difference was observed between the ability of empathy in the two groups. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, deficit in theory of mind can be discussed as one of the causal hypotheses in the commission of delinquent behavior and criminal offenses.
Vahid Nejati; Sara Aghayi Sabet; Marzyeh Khoshali Panah
Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 47-53
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Introduction: Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have difficulties in social interactions with peers and are confronted with peers rejection and social isolation. However, some researchers do not have agreement about this issue. So the purpose of this study was the comparison ...
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Introduction: Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have difficulties in social interactions with peers and are confronted with peers rejection and social isolation. However, some researchers do not have agreement about this issue. So the purpose of this study was the comparison of the social cognition ability in ADHD children and normal children. Method: For this reason, Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) was conducted to 25 ADHD children and 25 normal children who were matched for age and IQ. Findings: The results indicated that the performance of ADHD children in RMET was significantly lower than the control group. Conclusions: Since the mind reading is one of the most important elements of the social cognition, it can be concluded that impairment in mind reading ability is one of the affective factors in failure of these children in social interactions and interpersonal relationship.
