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Contextual influence over deriving another's false beliefs using a relational triangulation perspective taking

Paul M Guinther1

  • 1Western Psychological and Counseling Services, PC.

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
|November 16, 2018
PubMed
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This study enhanced a perspective-taking protocol to show how context influences the ability to understand false beliefs. The updated method successfully trained participants in attributing false beliefs, demonstrating contextual control in Theory of Mind tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Theory of Mind (ToM) is crucial for social interaction.
  • Understanding false beliefs is a key component of ToM.
  • Existing protocols for ToM training have limitations in demonstrating contextual control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend the relational triangulation perspective taking protocol (RT-PTP) with a new module (RT-PTP-M2).
  • To investigate the contextual influence on deriving "false beliefs" in adults.
  • To assess the effectiveness of RT-PTP-M2 in training false belief attribution.

Main Methods:

  • Adult participants completed an extended Sally-Anne test analog using RT-PTP-M2.
  • Direct conditioning procedures established consistent avatar behavior under specific stimuli (X2, X3).
Keywords:
Relational Frame Theoryderived false belief attributionperspective takingrelational triangulation frameworktheory of mindverbally competent adults

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  • Participants performed object discriminations from an avatar's perspective, with reinforcement for reporting initial target identity.

    • Main Results:

    • Participants who failed baseline testing spontaneously exhibited trained "false belief attribution" under a new stimulus (X3).
    • This trained repertoire was emitted relative to a different avatar (A3) under stimulus control (X3).
    • Some participants derived false belief under X3 without prior X2 attribution training, indicating successful contextual learning.

    Conclusions:

    • The RT-PTP procedures effectively induced context-of-relating functions.
    • Stimulus X3 acquired control over perspectival relational triangulation.
    • The enhanced protocol demonstrates successful contextual influence on false belief attribution training.