"Theory of Mind" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The ability to attribute mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires, feelings, intentions, thoughts, etc.) to self and to others, allowing an individual to understand and infer behavior on the basis of the mental states. Difference or deficit in theory of mind is associated with ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; and SCHIZOPHRENIA, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D056345
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.689 F02.739.897
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Theory of Mind".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Theory of Mind".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Theory of Mind" by people in this website by year, and whether "Theory of Mind" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Theory of Mind" by people in Profiles.
-
Web-based Assessment of Social-Emotional Skills in School-Aged Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Res. 2019 08; 12(8):1260-1271.
-
Machiavellian intelligence retrospective. J Comp Psychol. 2018 11; 132(4):432-436.
-
Theory-of-mind-related neural activity for one's romantic partner predicts partner well-being. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2016 Apr; 11(4):593-603.
-
Social-Emotional Correlates of Early Stage Social Information Processing Skills in Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Res. 2015 Oct; 8(5):486-96.
-
Neural disruption to theory of mind predicts daily social functioning in individuals at familial high-risk for schizophrenia. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014 Dec; 9(12):1914-25.
-
The neural basis of theory of mind and its relationship to social functioning and social anhedonia in individuals with schizophrenia. Neuroimage Clin. 2014; 4:154-63.
-
Using fiction to assess mental state understanding: a new task for assessing theory of mind in adults. PLoS One. 2013; 8(11):e81279.
-
Direct assessment of children's social-emotional comprehension. Psychol Assess. 2013 Dec; 25(4):1154-66.
-
Theory of mind skills are related to gray matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Dec 15; 70(12):1169-78.
-
Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Res. 2010 Jan 13; 1308:100-13.