Social Cognition Tools

First and Second order Theory of Mind Stories

The 1st and 2nd order Theory of Mind stories were used in the below studies. If you use this task in your research, we ask that you reference the task appropriately.

Langdon, R., Connors, M., & Connaughton, E. (2017). Indirect task instructions better reveal theory-of-mind impairment, independent of executive dysfunction, in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 256, 342-344.

Langdon, R., Flynn, M., Connaughton, E., & Brüne, M. (2017). Impairments of spontaneous and deliberative mentalising co-occur, yet dissociate, in schizophrenia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(4), 372-387.

Picture Sequencing Task

The picture sequencing task was first used in: Langdon, R., & Coltheart, M. (1999). Mentalising, schizotypy, and schizophrenia. Cognition, 71, 43-71.

If you use this task in your research, we ask that you reference the task appropriately in any publications.

Other studies involving this task include:

Langdon, R., Coltheart, M., Ward, P., & Catts, S. (2001). Mentalising, executive planning and disengagement in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 6(2), 81-108.

Langdon, R., Coltheart, M., Ward, P.B., & Catts, S.V. (2002). Disturbed communication in schizophrenia: the role of poor pragmatics and poor mind-reading. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1273-1284.

Social Judgement Task

The Social Judgment Task was first used in: Langdon, R., Connors, M.H., & Connaughton, E. (2014). Social cognition and social judgment in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 1, 171-174.

If you use this task in your research, we ask that you reference the task appropriately in any publications.

Assessing Understanding of Irony and Metaphor Using a Story Comprehension task

Expression Attribution Task