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  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Cross-sectional studies link mentalizing impairments to maladaptive personality traits.
  • Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory posits that mentalization deficits disrupt normative interpersonal processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dynamic, within-person relationship between mentalizing ability and interpersonal behavior/perception.
  • To examine how mentalizing impairments affect agentic and communal interactions over time.

Main Methods:

  • A multi-method design was employed with 218 participants.
  • Mentalizing ability was assessed using the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC).
  • Participants' agentic/communal behavior and perceptions of interaction partners were tracked over 21 days.

Main Results:

  • Mentalizing ability moderated the within-person link between behavior and perception for both agency and communion.
  • Poorer MASC performance correlated with weaker interpersonal complementarity.
  • Mentalizing impairments were associated with deviations from expected interpersonal patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Mentalizing impairments disrupt normative interpersonal processes, affecting both behavior and perception.
  • Findings support the Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory's assumptions regarding mentalization deficits.
  • This study highlights the crucial role of mentalizing in maintaining healthy social interactions.