Psychological-Mindedness, Psychological-Construing, and the Judgment of Deception.

This study examined the relationships among several measures of psychological thinking which, in a figurative sense, required "reading between the lines of behavior." Primary measures included psychological-construing (describing another person in psychological terms), the ability to "see through" and explain defense mechanisms, and detecting a bogus thief by means of "suspects" responses to a word association test. Secondary measures were personality-trait measures of psychological-mindedness.