Fig. 2.

Sequence of stages during a Mentalizing trial in the implicit task. Action 1 shows a female actor deliberately dropping a poker chip (spiteful 1) and action 2 shows a male actor accidentally dropping a poker chip (clumsy 1). In order to decide whether to interact with actor 1 or actor 2 the participant must infer the intentions of the actors from the kinematics of their actions because the outcomes of the two actions are identical