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- Researchers Kovács, Téglás, and Endress (2010) claimed that adults automatically understand others' beliefs, even when unrelated to current tasks.
- A series of 13 experiments was conducted to replicate their findings but revealed that previous results were influenced by flaws in the experimental design.
- Specifically, issues with the timing of attention checks indicated that the data do not support the existence of automatic theory of mind in adults.
Article Abstract
In recent work, Kovács, Téglás, and Endress (2010) argued that human adults automatically represented other agents' beliefs even when those beliefs were completely irrelevant to the task being performed. In a series of 13 experiments, we replicated these previous findings but demonstrated that the effects found arose from artifacts in the experimental paradigm. In particular, the critical findings demonstrating automatic belief computation were driven by inconsistencies in the timing of an attention check, and thus do not provide evidence for automatic theory of mind in adults.
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