Imagine the following scenario (inspired by true events): We are grocery shopping with our
friend Anita, who notices a woman down the aisle and waves and smiles at her. The woman …

The use of looking time procedures for the claim that infants understand other's false-beliefs
has drawn criticism. In response, Buttelmann, Carpenter, and Tomasello (2009) have …

Als ToM werden die alltagspsychologischen Konzepte bezeichnet, die wir benutzen, um uns
selbst und anderen mentale Zustände zuzuschreiben (was wir wissen, wollen, denken …

According to a widely shared interpretation, research employing spontaneous-response
false belief tasks demonstrates that infants as young as 15 months attribute (false) beliefs. In …

Prior to age four, children succeed in non-elicited-response false-belief tasks but fail elicited-
response false-belief tasks. To explain this discrepancy, the processing-load account argues …

One general perspective on why children over-imitate is that they are learning about the
normatively correct way of doing things. If correct, then characteristics of the demonstrator …

We tested A pperly and B utterfill's (2009, P sychological R eview, 116, 753) theory that
humans have two mindreading systems whereby the efficient‐system guiding anticipatory …

INTRODUCTION TO CONTROVERSIES IN FALSE BELIEF RESEARCH A mature, everyday
understanding of human behavior rests on having a representational theory of mind--an …

Many psychologists studying lay belief attribution and behavior explanation cite Donald
Davidson in support of their assumption that people construe beliefs as inner causes. But …

We recommend the attitude of optimistic agnosticism toward animal mindreading:
suspending acceptance until tests succeed in overcoming Povinelli's problem, and being …