Black "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" task: The development of a task assessing mentalizing from black faces.

ABSTRACT: Researchers investigating various facets of theory of mind, sometimes referred to as mentalizing, are increasingly exploring how social group membership influences this process. To facilitate this research, we introduce the Black Reading the Mind in The Eyes task, a freely available 36-item Black RME task with an array of norming data about these stimuli. Stimuli have been created and equated to match the original Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RME) task which included only White faces. Norming data were collected in three waves that characterized the physical properties of the stimuli and also participants' subjective ratings of the stimuli. Between each round of ratings, stimuli that did not equate with the original RME task or were not distinctly recognized as Black were removed and new

SUBMITTER: Handley G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6752818 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature