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Stories about: theory of mind

Explain Social Interaction Difficulties in Autism Experts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) say that they were recently able to determine some of the most important characteristics of the inabilities autistic people experience in social interactions. Determining why this happens and how has thus far eluded scientists. While the fact that social... 11 October 2011 04:31 GMT Autism Hinders Sufferers' Theory of Mind A team of American researchers was finally able to provide proof that adult people who suffer from autism have hindered theories of mind, as in the impaired ability to infer what other people are thinking and feeling. This makes social contact awkward and difficult. One of the main things that allowed our society to ... 1 February 2011 05:48 GMT Dogs Cannot Read Owners' Minds, Study Shows A new scientific study finds that, in spite of having lived close to humans for the last several tens of millennia, dogs are utterly unable to read a person's mind. The recent experiments focused on the behavior of dogs, which proved that they still trusted unreliable people. The finds again hammer down the so-... 18 August 2009 06:11 GMT