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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Dec 11;19(2):65–72. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.11.007

Table 1.

Table 1 (within Box 1): Examples of different tasks and constructs for ToM

Test Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task Sally and Anne Task Heider & Simmel animation
population clinical populations; children; adults children only; autism spectrum disorder mostly adults
construct emotion recognition false-belief understanding anthropomorphization
stimulus photographs of eyes vignettes/cartoons videos of moving shapes
response emotion identification behavior prediction subjective description