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Everyday Mind Reading

Exploring and improving "empathic accuracy," our ability to guess the thoughts and feelings of other people.
by Dr. William Ickes
Dr. William Ickes is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. For the past 20 years he has been studying empathic accuracy ("everyday mind reading"). See full bio

Everyday Mind Reading

January 28, 2009

Where Is Women's Intuition?

When my colleagues and I began doing research on empathic accuracy (everyday mind reading) about 20 years ago, we expected to find that women would be more accurate than men at inferring the specific content of other people's thoughts and feelings.  This expectation was based on the cultural stereotype of "women's intuition." Read More

October 2, 2008

The Man Who Measured Mind Reading

I must have been about 11 or 12 years old when I first heard about the field of psychology. Living in a small Iowa town just west of Des Moines, I was an expert on comic books and Mad Magazine in those days and not much else. Read More

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Books by Dr. William Ickes

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Empathic Accuracy
Image of Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel
Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel
Image of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
Image of Strangers in a Strange Lab: How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others
Strangers in a Strange Lab: How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others

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