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February 9, 2026Acta PsychologicaOpen Access

Individual differences in mentalizing skills and their relationship to concept processing

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HCHannah Tamar CorenblumDPDr Penny Pexman

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Overview

Pre-registered study explores mentalizing's role in semantic processing and cognition in adults, suggesting a significant relationship.

Key Points

  • This research investigates how individual differences in mentalizing skills influence semantic processing of cognitive concepts.
  • Conducted a pre-registered study with 297 adult participants.
  • Administered three measures of mentalizing skills.
  • Conducted two syntactic classification tasks to assess semantic processing.
  • Replicated the cognition effect with high-cognition words eliciting faster and more accurate responses.
  • Found that individuals with stronger mentalizing skills exhibited larger cognition effects.

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Corenblum et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69897983f0ec2af6756e72bahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106362
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