Theory of Mind and diverse intelligences in 4‐year‐olds: Modelling associations of false beliefs with children's numerate‐spatial, verbal, and social intelligence

C Osterhaus, DL Putnick… - British journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Theory of Mind (ToM) and the structure of intelligence were investigated in 115 4‐year‐olds.
Specifically, we asked whether children's intelligence involves both general and specific …

Individual differences in theory of mind: The preschool years and beyond

T Keenan - Individual differences in theory of mind, 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
Given increasing evidence of a link between children's understanding of false beliefs and
their social functioning (eg, Lalonde & Chandler, 1995; Peterson & Siegal, 2002; Slaughter …

Theory of mind in relation to other cognitive abilities

A Dowker, D Frye, H Tsuji - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Theory of mind and its development have been the subject of much research over the last 40
years. Theory of mind is generally thought to be very important in cognitive and social …

The Italian job?: Comparing theory of mind performance in British and Italian children

S Lecce, C Hughes - British Journal of Developmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Cross‐cultural research on theory of mind is relatively recent and largely restricted to
comparisons of children from Western versus non‐Western samples; much less is known …

Competence and performance in false belief understanding: A comparison of autistic and normal 3‐year‐old children

L Surian, AM Leslie - British Journal of Developmental …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Using a standard prediction of action task, we find that normally developing 3‐yearold
children successfully take into account a protagonist's false belief when asked a 'look …

Social cognition during and after kindergarten: The relations between first-order and advanced theories of mind

C Osterhaus, S Koerber - European Journal of Developmental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
First-order and advanced theory of mind (ToM and AToM), and their structures and relations
were investigated in 229 children aged 5–8 years. ToM was assessed using 6 tasks from the …

The development of children's theory of mind: The working memory explanation

HL Davis, C Pratt - Australian Journal of Psychology, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
The hypothesis that a growth in working memory capacity could explain the observed
development of theory of mind in preschoolers was tested. Fifty-four 3-to 5-year-olds were …

Association between theory of mind and mental state talk in preschoolers and later social competence and behaviour

AL Barreto, A Osório, J Baptista… - Infant and Child …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study had 2 primary aims:(a) to investigate the concurrent links between preschool‐
aged children's theory of mind (ToM) and mental state talk at 55 months and (b) to examine …

Developmental continuity between social-cognitive skills at age 2 and false belief understanding at age 4

E Yeung, U Müller, JIM Carpendale - Cognitive Development, 2019 - Elsevier
A number of studies have examined the developmental continuity between early social-
cognitive skills present in infancy and later theory of mind (ToM). However, less is known …

Social relationships and children's understanding of mind: Attachment, internal states, and mind-mindedness

E Meins - Access to language and cognitive development, 2012 - books.google.com
The acquisition of a theory of mind (ToM) is no longer regarded as a watershed in children's
individual metarepresentational development occurring around their fourth birthday …