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SUBMITTER: Wacker R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5539187 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wacker Renata R Bölte Sven S Dziobek Isabel I
Frontiers in psychology 20170802
Research recurrently shows that females perform better than males on various mindreading tasks. The present study contributes to this growing body of literature by being the first to demonstrate a female own-gender mindreading bias using a naturalistic social cognition paradigm including female and male targets. We found that women performed better at reading others' minds, and that they were specifically more capable to read female targets, an own-gender target effect absent in men. Furthermore ...[more]