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    Successful cooperation depends on good 'mindreading' abilities    
      
     Date:   
         July 13, 2023   
     Source:   
         University of Birmingham   
     Summary:   
         Researchers found that people with strong mind reading abilities --   
         the ability to understand and take the perspective of another   
         person's feelings and intentions -- are more successful in   
         cooperating to complete tasks than people with weaker mind reading   
         abilities.   
      
      
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   A person's 'mindreading ability' can predict how well they are able to   
   cooperate, even with people they have never met before.   
      
   Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that people with   
   strong mind reading abilities -- the ability to understand and take   
   the perspective of another person's feelings and intentions- are more   
   successful in cooperating to complete tasks than people with weaker mind   
   reading abilities.   
      
   These qualities, also called 'theory of mind', are not necessarily related   
   to intelligence and could be improved through training programmes to   
   foster improved cooperation, for example in the workplace or in schools   
   and colleges.   
      
   Lead researcher Roksana Markiewicz explained: "As a psychology   
   researcher, I often get asked if I can read minds and while this is   
   often said to me as a joke, humans do have mindreading abilities. Our   
   study shows that these qualities are clearly important in activities   
   that require cooperation."  In the study published in the Journal of   
   Experimental Psychology: LMC, the team measured theory of mind in over   
   400 participants. Participants were then sorted into pairs and joined a   
   researcher on a zoom call where they played a series of communication   
   games. Each player had a set of visual clues on their screen, which   
   could not be viewed by their partner. They had to communicate about the   
   different sets of clues and use them together to solve a puzzle.   
      
   Players who had high theory of mind (ToM) abilities and who were matched   
   with people who had similarly high ToM scores cooperated more effectively   
   than players matched with low ToM abilities. The researchers suggest   
   that this is because of a heightened ability to align in the same mental   
   space and to recover rapidly when misalignment occurs.   
      
   Similarly, the researchers found that failures in cooperation were more   
   common among participants with low ToM abilities. They suggest this is   
   because these participants found it harder to find ways to align their   
   thinking, leading to more frequent mistakes, and poorer recovery from   
   mistakes.   
      
   "We show for the first time that cooperation is not all about you," says   
   Roksana. "Even if you have excellent mindreading abilities yourself,   
   it will still be advantageous to cooperate with someone with similar   
   abilities, so choose your cooperation partner wisely!"   
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   Journal Reference:   
      1. Roksana Markiewicz, Foyzul Rahman, Ian Apperly, Ali Mazaheri,   
      Katrien   
         Segaert. It is not all about you: Communicative cooperation is   
         determined by your partner's theory of mind abilities as well as   
         your own.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,   
         and Cognition, 2023; DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001268   
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   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230713141925.htm   
      
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