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What skills do you need to be a successful researcher? The answer to this question is complicated because researchers carry out a wide range of tasks—writing, emailing, presenting, emailing, advising, emailing, etc.—and each task has skills associated with it. Nonetheless, I've come to believe that many of these skills can be unified under a single overarching ability: theory of mind. Honing this ability can make you more effective as a researcher in ways that generalize across many of the tasks that researchers perform.

Tom McCoy 1. Introduction What skills do you need to be a successful researcher? The answer to this question is complicated because researchers carry out a wide range of tasks—writing, emailing, presenting, emailing, advising, emailing, etc.—and each task has skills associated with it. Nonetheless, I've come to believe that many of these skills can be unified under a single overarching ability: theory of mind. Honing this ability can make you more effective as a researcher in ways that generalize across many of the tasks that researchers perform. To give an informal definition, theory of…

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