title: The game is afoot: A response to three insightful commentaries.
abstract: This is an author response to commentaries on our original article (Wu, Sheppard & Mitchell, 2016). We abstract two main themes from the commentaries, and they are as follows: (1) What kind of clues in target behaviour allow perceivers to infer target EQ? And related with this, by what process do perceivers infer the target's EQ? (2) Do features of the target group naturally lead to a U-shaped function, whereby it is easy for perceivers to identify those at the extremes but not those in the middle of the continuum?
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Wenjie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sheppard
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving; D013850:Thinking
keywords: U-shaped function; behaviour clues; mindreading process