Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also
referred to as' thinking about thinking'). In the past thirty years metacognition research has …

Abstract This issue of British Journal of Developmental Psychology addresses the
developmental puzzle of infants as young as 14 or 15 months displaying sensitivity to …

How can human beings make significant but cognitively taxing inferences about others'
beliefs yet also effectively “mind read” in fast-moving social situations? We tested the idea …

Over the past 25 years, a great deal of research has been carried out on social cognition in
infancy. This research can be roughly organized into two sets of questions that map neatly …

Understanding the origins of human social cognition is a central challenge in contemporary
science. In recent decades, the idea of a 'Theory of Mind'(ToM) has emerged as the most …

Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

An implicit understanding of false belief indicated by anticipatory looking has been shown to
be significantly correlated with performance on explicit false‐belief tasks in 3‐and 4‐year …

In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what people are thinking, why
they act as they do, and what they are likely to do next. This process is called mindreading …

One striking feature of research into mental state ascription or 'mindreading'is the extent to
which it has involved cooperation between psychology and philosophy. Contemporary …

This article reviews recent evidence for the claim that infants possess a theory of mind. Two
conceptual systems (CS) of psychological reasoning are distinguished: CS1, underlying the …