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:: Monday, May 23, 2005 ::
Sarcasm: How the Brain Handles This Complex Communication - American Psychological Association
The Israeli psychologists who conducted the research explain that for sarcasm to score, listeners must grasp the speaker's intentions in the context of the situation. This calls for sophisticated social thinking and 'theory of mind,' or whether we understand that everyone thinks different thoughts. As an example of what happens when 'theory of mind' is limited or missing, autistic children have problems interpreting irony, the more general category of social communication into which sarcasm falls.------------------------------------------- posted 12:48 PM :: reference link ::
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