Recent studies suggest that by the second year of life, infants can attribute false beliefs to
agents. However, prior studies have largely focused on infants' ability to predict a mistaken …

In this intervention study, we tested the differential effect of talking about children's desires
versus talking about others' thoughts and knowledge on children's acquisition of mental …

Intention reading and action understanding have been reported in ever-younger infants.
However, the notions of intention attribution and action understanding, as well as their …

The ability to flexibly predict others' behaviors has been ascribed to a theory of mind (ToM)
system. Most research has focused on formal conceptual definitions of such a system, and …

Parenting and Theory of Mind represents the conjunction of two major research literatures in
child psychology. One is longstanding. The question of how best to rear children has been a …

Nativist and empiricist approaches require foundationalism because they cannot account for
the emergence of representation. Foundationalism is the assumption of an innate …

In 2 cross-lagged, longitudinal studies we contrasted parental talk about want in a single
context versus multiple contexts. Study 1 examined thirty-two 2 year olds, with mothers …

Philosophical orthodoxy has it that intentional action consists in one's intention appropriately
causing a motion of one's body, placing the latter (conceptually and/or metaphysically) prior …

Metacognition has been defined as any knowledge or cognitive activity that takes as its
cognitive object, or that regulates, any aspect of any cognitive activity (Flavell et al. 1993, p …

According to a widely shared view, experience plays only a limited role in children's
acquisition of the capacity to pass the false belief test: at most, it facilitates or attunes the …