Effects of Empathy and Emotion Recognition on Theory of Mind in Adolescences and Adults (청소년과 성인의 마음이론에 미치는 공감과 정서인식 기능의 영향)

Hye Jin Shim (심혜진); So-Yeon Kim (김소연)

doi:10.35574/KJDP.2020.9.33.3.115

Effects of Empathy and Emotion Recognition on Theory of Mind in Adolescences and Adults

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2020, 33(3), pp.115-138
DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2020.9.33.3.115
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Received : January 15, 2020
Accepted : August 20, 2020
Published : September 15, 2020

Hye Jin Shim ¹, So-Yeon Kim ¹

¹덕성여대 심리학과

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ABSTRACT

Theory of mind(ToM) is an ability to attribute intention, belief, and emotion of others to predict their behaviors. ToM begins with understanding of other’s intention in childhood and develops to more sophisticated forms such as inferring other’s emotions. In this study, we investigated development of two types of ToM (cognitive and affective ToM) in adolescents and adults. We also examined whether empathy and emotion recognition could explain development of cognitive and/or affective ToM. Results showed that accuracy of cognitive and affective ToM in adults were significantly higher than that of adolescents. Also, we found that cognitive empathy significantly explained cognitive ToM in adolescents in Study 1. In Study 2, we found that accuracy and sensitivity on a dynamic facial emotion recognition task significantly explained affective ToM in adolescents. Taken together, we demonstrated that both cognitive and affective ToM continue to develop from adolescences to adults. Further, we report a novel finding that both empathy and emotion recognition abilities are important factors to explain development of cognitive and affective ToM.

KEYWORDS

Adolescences, Cognitive ToM, Affective ToM, Cognitive empathy, Affective empathy, Facial emotion recognition

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