Three-year-olds usually fail to recall a previous false belief once they have discovered the
true state of affairs. The failure is so dramatic that researchers have treated it as a case of …

The purpose of this investigation was to see whether children's understandings of different
types of beliefs develop concurrently. Children of 3, 4, and 5 years of age were told or shown …

Children between the ages of 3 years 7 months and 6 years 5 months experienced a
contradiction between what they knew or guessed to be inside a box and what they were …

This study investigated the longitudinal relation between children's theory of mind and their
metacognitive knowledge with a special focus on the impact of language on this relation …

Recent work on the mechanisms underlying children's developing theories of mind have
identified information-processing capacity as a factor that contributes to children's …

Using four traditional false-belief tasks, I investigated deaf children's age and expressive
language skills in relation to their theory of mind development. The children's parents who …

Three experiments were carried out to determine whether there is a lag in predicting
surprise relative to false belief. All 3 experiments used “backwards reasoning” tasks. The …

False belief tests seem to show the apparent acquisition at around age 4 of an ability to
understand the representational status of mind. In this article, preschoolers' performance on …

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 …

According to Piagetian accounts of cognitive development, children's responses on many
tasks reflect the lack of evidence for an operational competence that is conceptual rather …