The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both
reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers …

Previous studies using the dot perspective task have shown that adults are slower to verify
the number of dots they can see in a picture when a human figure in the picture, an avatar …

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on
theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with …

Various dichotomies have been proposed to characterize the nature and development of
human mindreading capacities, especially in light of recent evidence of mindreading in …

Human language and social cognition are closely linked: advanced social cognition is
necessary for children to acquire language, and language allows forms of social …

The experimental record of the last three decades shows that children under 4 years old fail
all sorts of variations on the standard false-belief task, whereas more recent studies have …

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

This chapter is concerned with the unique qualities that develop to distinguish the individual
child from others, the qualities that contribute to the growth of personality. The goal is to …

Research on mindreading in animals has the potential to address fundamental questions
about the nature and origins of the human capacity to ascribe mental states, but it is a …

Adults routinely make sense of others' actions by inferring the mental states that underlie
these actions. Over the past two decades, developmental researchers have made significant …