Despite the fact that the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test (RMET) is now available in more than 20 languages, there are only very few cross‐cultural researchers using this test, and these researchers generally focus on North American versus East Asian cultures. Considering that the RMET stimuli were selected and constructed in the United Kingdom, this research explored cross‐cultural differences in intercultural mindreading with a large sample of adolescents from Palestine (PAL), Italy (ITA), and Germany (GER). In addition to significant main effects of age (younger < older) and gender (male < female), we found a significant main effect of country (PAL < ITA < GER) and a significant interaction between gender and country. Individualism was not related to mindreading in any of the three countries whereas collectivism was positively related in PAL, but not in ITA or GER, accounting only for a very small amount of the variance. Our results suggest that (a) there may be cultural ingroup effects on mindreading, (b) the known female superiority in mindreading may be moderated by cultural factors, and (c) depending on cultural factors, individualism and collectivism may be differently related to mindreading.

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跨文化思维方式的跨文化差异：来自巴勒斯坦，意大利和德国青少年的证据

尽管现在已经有20多种语言的“阅读眼中的思维”测试（RMET），但只有很少的跨文化研究人员使用该测试，这些研究人员通常侧重于北美与东亚文化。考虑到RMET刺激物是在英国选择和构建的，本研究使用来自巴勒斯坦（PAL），意大利（ITA）和德国（GER）的大量青少年，探索了跨文化思维方式的跨文化差异。除了年龄（年轻人<老年人）和性别（男性<女性）的重要影响外，我们还发现国家（PAL <ITA <GER）具有重大影响，并且性别与国家之间存在显着的相互作用。在这三个国家中，任何一个国家的个人主义都不与心态相关，而集体主义在PAL中正相关，但在ITA或GER中却没有正相关，仅占很小的差异。我们的研究结果表明：（a）可能会对心智阅读产生文化上的群体影响；（b）已知的女性心智优势可能受到文化因素的影响；（c）取决于文化因素，个人主义和集体主义可能与心智阅读有不同的关系。