Faux Pas Recognition Test.
FPT
Advanced theory of mind - detecting and explaining social faux pas (requires representing both the speaker's unawareness, cognitive ToM, and the listener's hurt, affective ToM)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 20 stories (10 contain a faux pas, 10 control), each followed by comprehension/ToM questions. performance/ability - read/hear a vignette, answer whether a faux pas occurred + follow-up mental-state questions; scored against a key (control questions guard against comprehension confounds) (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Translated into many languages (ES, IT, FR, PT, ZH, Turkish, etc.); a standardized short version exists
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Stone, V. E., Baron-Cohen, S., & Knight, R. T. (1998). Frontal lobe contributions to theory of mind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(5), 640-656. https://docs.autismresearchcentre.com/tests/FauxPas_Adult.pdf
https://docs.autismresearchcentre.com/tests/FauxPas_Adult.pdf
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