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hinting: a standalone construct

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hinting1 CONSTRUCTHinting TaskHINTING TASK · ToM

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Social cognition

a theory of mind test where people read vignettes ending in a broad hint and say what a character means.

In social cognition, the Hinting Task is a measure of theory of mind in which a person reads short vignettes ending in a broad hint and must state what a character really means or wants, testing the inference of intention behind indirect speech. Corcoran, Mercer, and Frith introduced it to probe mentalising in people with schizophrenia. The referent is a mental-state-inference ability indexed by a scored task, and it has nothing to do with adjusting the on-screen rendering of a font.[1]

Unit
Score on the Hinting Task (correct inference of intent across items)
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
By the number of vignettes for which the intended meaning is correctly inferred

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References

  1. Corcoran, R., Mercer, G., & Frith, C. D. (1995). Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference: Investigating “theory of mind” in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 17(1), 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/0920-9964(95)00024-G

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