Methods and Data for: Eight truths, eight lies: an experiment on recursive mindreading and social memory 2023

Methods and Data files. This study aims to explore the potential relationship between one’s mental verb vocabulary size, and their ability to mentalise. While multiple studies have been conducted on the limit of adults’ mentalizing ability (Kinderman et al., 1988; Stiller et al., 2007; Lyons et al., 2010; O’Grady et al., 2015), relatively little has been researched about correlative factors beyond demographic variables. Furthermore, the participants studied were overwhelmingly from Western populations speaking different varieties of English than in Singapore. Thus, this study also seeks to determine whether mentalising ability will differ on the basis of an individual’s vocabulary for cognitive words. In addition the study will investigate whether a person’s memory differs for complex embeddings with mentalizing content versus non-mentalizing content. (2023-03-02)