Fig. 4

Graphical depiction of the ToM task. Each trial consisted of an introduction describing the respective task and a cartoon story consisting of three consecutive pictures. This figure illustrates the ToM condition. First an introduction text is shown “Does the person feel worse—equal—better as on the picture before”, which means that the subjects had to judge how the affective state is changed in pictures 2 and 3 compared to the previous picture. In the control condition, the subject has to judge whether the number of living beings is changed