Hypo- or hyper-mentalizing: It all depends upon what one means by "mentalizing"

Robyn Langdon*, Jon Brock

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    Abstract

    By conceiving of autism and psychosis as diametrically opposite phenotypes of underactive and overactive mentalizing, respectively, Crespi & Badcock (C&B) commit themselves to a continuum view of intercorrelated mentalizing functions. This view fails to acknowledge dissociations between mentalizing functions and that psychotic people show a mixture of both hypo- and hyper-mentalizing.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)274-275
    Number of pages2
    JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
    Volume31
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2008

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