Where is my key? Where is his key? Perspective taking and social sensitivity of the Key Search task

The ability to understand and attribute mental states to oneself and others is referred as Theory of Mind (ToM; Premack & Woodruff, 1978). ToM is essential for comprehension of our own behaviour as well as that of others. These self- and other-orientated attributions have been shown to be dissociable through clinical, experimental and neuroimaging studies (e.g., Bradford, Jentzsch, & Gomez, 2015; Bodden et al., 2010, Decety and Sommerville, 2003 and Harari et al., 2010). Here we report how simply rewording whether a real-world problem-solving task is completed from the perspective of the self or others can change how the test is performed.