1. eliciting situation
2. ambiguous social cues
3. hypersensitivity to social cues
4. exclusive usage of either controlled-explicit or automatic-implicit mentalization
5. self-other mental state confusion
6. imagined other-mind reaction tendency

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Hypermentalizing/hypermentalization refers to the social-cognitive process of excessively inferring the mental states of others when there is insufficient concrete real-world evidence to support these inferences.

Hypermentalizing/hypermentalization

Sharp, C., & Vanwoerden, S. (2015). Hypermentalizing in borderline personality disorder: A model and data. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14(1), 33-45.

Hypermentalizing in BPD (Sharp & Vanwoerden, 2015)

Factors Inducing Hypermentalizing in BPD

1. Intrusive pseudomentalizing
2. Overactive form of pseudomentalising
3. Destructively inaccurate pseudomentalising

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