Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

Background Impairment in a wide range of cognitive abilities has been consistently reported
in individuals with schizophrenia. Both neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits are …

Objective: Social cognition is strongly associated with functional outcome in schizophrenia,
making it an important target for treatment. Our goal was to examine the average magnitude …

Reflective functioning offers an empirically grounded framework for the assessment of
mentalization. This article briefly outlines the theory of mentalization and the development of …

Theory of mind (TOM), the ability to infer mental states to self and others, has been a
pervasive research theme across many disciplines including developmental, educational …

Purpose Although there is considerable evidence that adversities in childhood such as
social deprivation, sexual abuse, separation from parents, neglect and exposure to deviant …

Although dementia praecox or schizophrenia has been considered a unique disease entity
for the past century, its definitions and boundaries have continued to vary over this period. At …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

Theory of mind (ToM) deficit is a well-established feature of schizophrenia and has been
suggested as a vulnerability marker of this disorder. However, as most of this evidence is …

This article reviews concepts of, as well as neurocognitive and genetic studies on, empathy.
Whereas cognitive empathy can be equated with affective theory of mind, that is, with …