Is It Normal to Be a Principal Mindreader? Revising Theories of Social Cognition on the Basis of Schizophrenia and High Functioning Autism-Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Froese, Tom; Stanghellini, Giovanni; Bertelli, Marco O.
Titel	Is It Normal to Be a Principal Mindreader? Revising Theories of Social Cognition on the Basis of Schizophrenia and High Functioning Autism-Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 34 (2013) 5, S.1376-1387 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2013.01.005
Schlagwörter	Psychopathology; Interpersonal Competence; Autism; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Social Cognition; Schizophrenia; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Neurological Impairments; Phenomenology; Cognitive Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychopathologie; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Autismus; Kognitive Psychologie; Kognitionswissenschaft; Soziale Kognition; Schizophrenie; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	Schizophrenia and high functioning autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental conditions that mainly impair social competence, while general intelligence (IQ) is spared. Both disorders have a strong ancillary role in theoretical research on social cognition. Recently the debate has started to be inflected by embodied and phenomenological approaches, which claim that the standard portrayal of all social understanding as so-called "mindreading", i.e. the attribution of mental states to others in the service of explaining and predicting their behavior, is misguided. Instead it is emphasized that we normally perceive others directly as conscious and goal-directed persons, without requiring any theorizing and/or simulation. This paper evaluates some of the implications of abnormal experiences reported by people with schizophrenia and ASD for the current debate in cognitive science. For these people the practice of explicit mindreading seems to be a compensatory strategy that ultimately fails to compensate for--and may even exacerbate--their impairment of intuitive and interactive social understanding. Phenomenological psychopathology thereby supports the emerging view that "mindreading" is not the principal form of normal social understanding. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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