Studying social cognition in patients with schizophrenia and patients with frontotemporal dementia: theory of mind and the perception of sarcasm
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We investigated social cognition and theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and in patients with frontotemporal dementia in order to elucidate the cognitive mechanisms involved in the breakdown of these skills in psychiatric and neurological patients. Our tasks included videotaped scenarios of social interactions depicting sincere, sarcastic and paradoxical remarks, as well as lies. We found impaired performance of the schizophrenia group on all theory of mind conditions despite their intact understanding of sincere statements. In contrast, the FTD group performed poorly only when they had to rely on paralinguistic cues indicating sarcasm or lies, and not on paradoxical remarks or sarcasm when given additional verbal cues. Our findings suggest that, while current deficits in social and interpersonal functioning in patients with FTD may reflect a decrement in previously acquired skills, similar deficits in patients with schizophrenia may reflect an altogether inadequately learned process.
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Schizophrenia patients show impaired sarcasm and lie detection on the TASIT irrespective of the contextual information provided.
“Interestingly, while both schizophrenia patients and patients with bvFTD are able to interpret sincere statements on the TASIT, schizophrenia patients show impaired sarcasm and lie detection irrespective of the contextual information provided, whereas patients with bvFTD are impaired at detecting sarcasm and lies, but this is alleviated with additional contextual information (Kosmidis et al. , 200”
From Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020) · cites this paper as Kosmidis et al. , 2008
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSchizophrenia patients and patients with bvFTD are able to interpret sincere statements on the TASIT.
“Interestingly, while both schizophrenia patients and patients with bvFTD are able to interpret sincere statements on the TASIT, schizophrenia patients show impaired sarcasm and lie detection irrespective of the contextual information provided, whereas patients with bvFTD are impaired at detecting sarcasm and lies, but this is alleviated with additional contextual information (Kosmidis et al. , 200”
From Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020) · cites this paper as Kosmidis et al. , 2008
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredPatients with bvFTD are impaired at detecting sarcasm and lies on the TASIT, but this is alleviated with additional contextual information.
“Interestingly, while both schizophrenia patients and patients with bvFTD are able to interpret sincere statements on the TASIT, schizophrenia patients show impaired sarcasm and lie detection irrespective of the contextual information provided, whereas patients with bvFTD are impaired at detecting sarcasm and lies, but this is alleviated with additional contextual information (Kosmidis et al. , 200”
From Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020) · cites this paper as Kosmidis et al. , 2008
The available copy contains only article metadata (no section or page of study text). Searches for sarcasm, TASIT, and contextual information returned no results or discussion, so it cannot establish whether additional context alleviated the bvFTD patients’ difficulty detecting sarcasm and lies. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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- Authors
- Kosmidis, M. H., Aretouli, E., Bozikas, V. P., Giannakou, M., & Ioannidis, P.
- Affiliations
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
- Corresponding author
- Kosmidis, Mary H.
- Venue
- Behavioural Neurology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 65-69
- ISSN
- 0953-4180 (ISSN-L)
- 1875-8584
- PMC
- PMC5452478
- OpenAlex
- W1969655797
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 5.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Behavioural Neurology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education and Religion of the Hellenic Republic
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- social cognition, theory of mind, schizophrenia, frontotemporal dementia, lying detection, paralinguistic cues
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Cognition Disorders, Dementia, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychological Theory, Schizophrenia, Semantics, Severity of Illness Index, Social Perception, Speech Perception
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