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Here, we extend this research to another medium, exploring the effect of viewing award-winning TV dramas on subsequent performance on a test of theory of mind ability, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste, & Plumb, 2001).
"Results indicate that exposure to literary but not genre fiction positively predicts performance on a test of theory of mind, even when accounting for demographic variables including age, gender, educational attainment, undergraduate major … and self-reported empathy," they write in the paper, Different Stories: How Levels of Familiarity With Literary and Genre Fiction Relate to Mentalising.
In multiple case studies, a theoretical replication is a test of theory by comparing the findings with new cases.
They suggest that a better test of theory of mind would require the subject to make an inference from self to other.
This really began as a test of theory of mine concerning how music affects the emotions.
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Such a test of theories is mainly the domain of experimental and quantitative studies.
There is a debate in case study research whether the test of theories is related to the falsification logic of Karl Popper (Flyvbjerg 2006; Tsang 2013).
Using the data obtained from a microblogging service during the brewing and active phases of the 15M movement in Spain, we perform the first large scale test of theories on collective emotions and social interaction in collective actions.
There are also many attempts to measure ion distribution at charged interfaces which would be a stringent test of theories.
Here's the abstract from the study, which you can read in full here: Previous research has shown that reading award-winning literary fiction leads to increases in performance on tests of theory of mind (Kidd & Castano, 2013).
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) routinely fail false belief tests of theory of mind (ToM), even at advanced chronological and mental ages.
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