Mind‐mindedness is a measure of the tendency to represent significant others in internal state terms and is central to supportive parent–infant relationships. The two studies reported here explored whether mind‐mindedness generalizes to representations of unknown individuals, using a novel task that assessed individual differences in adults’ tendency to interpret others’ behavior with reference to their internal states: the Unknown Mother–Infant Interaction Task (UMIIT). We compared UMIIT performance with measures of mind‐mindedness from (a) adults’ descriptions of close friends and partners (Study 1, N = 96) and (b) mothers’ appropriate versus nonattuned comments on their infants’ internal states (Study 2, N = 56). In line with the proposal that mind‐mindedness is a relational construct, UMIIT performance was unrelated to mind‐mindedness in both studies.

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心智与行为的心智解释：心智是一种关系结构吗？

心智是衡量在内部状态方面代表重要他人的倾向的指标，并且是支持性亲子关系的核心。这里报告的两项研究探索了思维意识是否可以概括为未知个体的表征，使用一项新任务来评估成年人根据其内部状态来解释他人行为的倾向的个体差异：未知母婴互动任务 (UMIIT) ）。我们将 UMIIT 的表现与来自 (a) 成年人对亲密朋友和伴侣的描述（研究 1，N  = 96）和（b）母亲对婴儿内部状态的适当与不协调的评论（研究 2，N = 56）。与思想意识是一种关系结构的提议一致，在两项研究中，UMIIT 的表现都与思想意识无关。