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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Mentalizing, the inference of others' inner states, is crucial for social cognition.
  • Its role in dynamic, real-world social interactions remains underexplored.
  • Existing theories often overlook the interplay between metacognition and various mentalizing facets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Propose the interactive mentalizing theory (IMT) to elucidate the role of metacognition in social cognition.
  • Detail four key components of mentalizing: metacognition, first-order, second-order, and collective mentalizing.
  • Investigate how these components dynamically interact during live social interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical framework integrating metacognition with first-order, second-order, and collective mentalizing.
  • Discussion of metacognitive insight and confidence as regulators of mentalizing processes.
  • Proposal for using computational modeling and interactive brain approaches to study live social interactions.

Main Results:

  • Metacognition is central, influencing self-inference and guiding other mentalizing components.
  • Four distinct mentalizing elements (metacognition, first-order, personal second-order, collective) interact dynamically.
  • The weighting of these elements is modulated by metacognitive confidence and insight.

Conclusions:

  • The IMT provides a novel framework for understanding mentalizing in social contexts.
  • Metacognition is essential for integrating self-perception with social understanding.
  • Future research should combine computational and interactive brain methods to explore real-time mentalizing dynamics.