El objetivo de este artículo es doble: a) comprobar si la coincidencia y discrepancia entre los deseos de los participantes y los de un personaje producen diferencias en la predicción emocional y b) si la capacidad de “descen- tración”, necesaria para hacer una predicción correcta de emoción cuando los deseos no coincidían, podría ser similar a la que los niños necesitan para resolver la tarea de falsa creencia. Los participantes expresaban en primer lugar su propio deseo con relación a dos alternativas posibles y después veían una película en la que el deseo del protagonista coincidía o no con el deseo propio. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la predicción emocional no sólo es el resultado de la relación entre estados mentales y realidad sino que con ella interactúan factores de carácter afectivo como la valencia de la emoción o el significado afectivo de las personas que satisfacen o no los deseos.
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