Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category)
2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in …

Recent findings have highlighted the importance of children's social understanding–
specifically their reasoning about beliefs and emotions–for school achievement. However …

This chapter is concerned with how children develop social cognition. The aim will be to
summarize a continuing and ever-changing debate and to predict the developments in this …

Recent research that bridges the divide between cognitive and social development in early
childhood illuminates, but also sets challenges, for both fields. The implications of recent …

There are several reasons why adolescence is interesting. It is in this phase that an
individual finds herself fully facing the external world: basically equipped with the kind of …

Individual differences in young children's understanding of others' feelings and in their ability
to explain human action in terms of beliefs, and the earlier correlates of these differences …

This paper presents a selective review of the literature addressing the influence of young
children's conversational environments and interactions on their psychological …

In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind,
construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs, and desires. In this context …

This chapter addresses the child's understanding of people's actions, thoughts, and feelings.
It begins with a brief description of an early controversy about whether very young children …

How and when children acquire the ability to think about and take account of others' mental
states, as well as their own, is a topic of much current interest to developmental …