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Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people? (2021)
Journal Article
Alkhaldi, R. S., Sheppard, E., Burdett, E., & Mitchell, P. (2021). Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people?. Autism in Adulthood, 3(3), https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2020.0059

Background: This study investigated whether neurotypical individuals’ judgments that they dislike a person are more common when viewing autistic individuals than when viewing neurotypical individuals. Methods: Videos of autistic and neurotypical targ... Read More about Do neurotypical people like or dislike autistic people?.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Qing Leong, M., Yu, Z., Paterakis, G., Bali, P., Derrfuss, J., …Mitchell, P. (2021). “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01461-7

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in sensitivity to immoral behaviors and cognition compared to non-religious individual. This effect could occur due to perceptual and physiological difference... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.

An examination of perseverative errors and cognitive flexibility in autism (2021)
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Landry, O., & Mitchell, P. (2021). An examination of perseverative errors and cognitive flexibility in autism. PLoS ONE, 16(1), Article e0223160. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223160

Perseveration is a well-replicated finding in autism. The aim of this study was to examine how the context of the task influences performance with respect to this phenomenon. We randomly assigned 137 children aged 6–12 with and without autism to comp... Read More about An examination of perseverative errors and cognitive flexibility in autism.

Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world (2019)
Journal Article
Wu, W., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12513

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we propose a new framework for investigating how accurately and by what process people read others' minds—a process that requires perceivers to make a retrodictive inference. In this context, we discuss... Read More about Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world.

Is There a Link Between Autistic People Being Perceived Unfavorably and Having a Mind That Is Difficult to Read? (2019)
Journal Article
Alkhaldi, R. S., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Is There a Link Between Autistic People Being Perceived Unfavorably and Having a Mind That Is Difficult to Read?. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(10), 3973-3982. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04101-1

© 2019, The Author(s). The link between autistic people having a mind that is difficult to read (by neurotypical participants) and being perceived unfavorably was investigated. Videoed Autistic and neurotypical targets from Sheppard et al. (PLOS ONE... Read More about Is There a Link Between Autistic People Being Perceived Unfavorably and Having a Mind That Is Difficult to Read?.

Accurate inferences of others' thoughts depend on where they stand on the empathic trait continuum (2019)
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Wu, W., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Accurate inferences of others' thoughts depend on where they stand on the empathic trait continuum. Personality and Individual Differences, 148, 110-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.05.025

This research explores the possibility that a person's (perceiver's) prospects of making a correct inference of another person's (target's) inner states depends on the personal characteristics of the target, potentially relating to how readable they... Read More about Accurate inferences of others' thoughts depend on where they stand on the empathic trait continuum.

Modelling the executive components involved in processing false belief and mechanical/intentional sequences (2018)
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Tsuji, H., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Modelling the executive components involved in processing false belief and mechanical/intentional sequences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(2), 184-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12266

To understand the executive demands of the false-belief (FB) task relative to an alternative theory-of-mind (or mechanical causality) task, picture sequencing, the present study used path analyses. 166 children between 3 and 6 years old completed the... Read More about Modelling the executive components involved in processing false belief and mechanical/intentional sequences.

Dissociating neural signatures of mental state retrodiction and classification based on facial expressions (2018)
Journal Article
Kang, K., Schneider, D., Schweinberger, S. R., & Mitchell, P. (2018). Dissociating neural signatures of mental state retrodiction and classification based on facial expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(9), 933-943. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy061

Posed facial expressions of actors have often been used as stimuli to induce mental state inferences, in order to investigate “Theory of Mind” processes. However, such stimuli make it difficult to determine whether perceivers are using a basic or mor... Read More about Dissociating neural signatures of mental state retrodiction and classification based on facial expressions.

How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter? (2017)
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Valanides, C., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (in press). How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter?. PLoS ONE, 12(11), Article e0187586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187586

This research investigated how accurately people infer what others are thinking after observing a brief sample of their behaviour and whether culture/similarity is a relevant factor. Target participants (14 British and 14 Mediterraneans) were cued to... Read More about How accurately can other people infer your thoughts -- and does culture matter?.

Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua (2017)
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Wu, W., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (in press). Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua. European Journal of Personality, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2116

Trait inferences occur routinely and rapidly during social interaction, sometimes based on scant or fleeting information. In this research, participants (perceivers) made inferences of targets’ big-five traits after briefly watching or listening to a... Read More about Judging personality from a brief sample of behaviour: detecting where others stand on trait continua.

Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions (2017)
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Lang, K., Anthoney, L., & Mitchell, P. (in press). Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions. Perception, 46(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006617709674

Being able to recognize facial expressions of basic emotions is of great importance to social development. However, we still know surprisingly little about children’s developing ability to interpret emotions that are expressed dynamically, naturally... Read More about Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions.

Seeing the world through others’ minds: inferring social context from behaviour (2016)
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Teoh, Y., Wallis, E., Stephen, I. D., & Mitchell, P. (2017). Seeing the world through others’ minds: inferring social context from behaviour. Cognition, 159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.11.003

Past research tells us that individuals can infer information about a target’s emotional state and intentions from their facial expressions (Frith & Frith, 2012), a process known as mentalising. This extends to inferring the events that caused the fa... Read More about Seeing the world through others’ minds: inferring social context from behaviour.

Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour? (2015)
Journal Article
Wu, W., Sheppard, E., & Mitchell, P. (in press). Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour?. British Journal of Psychology, 107(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12157

Mentalizing (otherwise known as ‘theory of mind’) involves a special process that is adapted for predicting and explaining the behaviour of others (targets) based on inferences about targets’ beliefs and character. This research investigated how well... Read More about Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour?.

Processing of Spontaneous Emotional Responses in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effect of Stimulus Type (2015)
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Cassidy, S., Chapman, P., Ropar, D., & Mitchell, P. (2015). Processing of Spontaneous Emotional Responses in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effect of Stimulus Type. Autism Research, 8(5), 534-544. doi:10.1002/aur.1468

Recent research has shown that adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have difficulty interpreting others' emotional responses, in order to work out what actually happened to them. It is unclear what underlies this difficulty; important cues may... Read More about Processing of Spontaneous Emotional Responses in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Effect of Stimulus Type.

Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response? (2013)
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Cassidy, S., Ropar, D., Mitchell, P., & Chapman, P. (2014). Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?. Autism Research, 7(1), 112-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1351

Can adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) infer what happened to someone from their emotional response? Millikan has argued that in everyday life, others' emotions are most commonly used to work out the antecedents of behavior, an ability terme... Read More about Can Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Infer What Happened to Someone From Their Emotional Response?.