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Abstract Social cognition is a specialized cognitive domain that facilitates effective social communication and relationships. This mental operation includes the capacity to hold eye gaze and attend to relevant features of faces, recognize and interpret emotions from facial expressions, identify and attribute signals of social threat and to accurately infer the mental states of others (Green et al., 2010). Social cognition typically includes four separate domains: emotion perception, social perception and social knowledge, mentalization and attributional bias (Green et al., 2005). Mentalization, used interchangeably with the term theory of mind (ToM), is the capacity to understand one’s own or another’s behavior in terms of underlying mental states (e.g., thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, and plans). The process of making meaning of internal states is crucial in both the intrapersonal and interpersonal realms. In the intrapersonal realm, mentalization provides |