The lack of consensus on how to characterize humans' capacity for belief reasoning has
been brought into sharp focus by recent research. Children fail critical tests of belief …

Young infants' successful performance on false belief tasks has led several researchers to
argue that there may be a core knowledge system for representing the beliefs of other …

Characterizing the cognitive architecture of human mindreading forces us to address two
puzzles in people's attributions of belief: Why children show inconsistent expectations about …

A recent meta‐analysis performed by Wellman, Cross, and Watson clears the air
surrounding young children's performance on tests of false belief by showing that it is highly …

Intense controversy surrounds the question of when children first understand that others can
hold false beliefs. Results from traditional tasks suggest that false-belief understanding does …

To predict and explain the behavior of others, one must understand that their actions are
determined not by reality but by their beliefs about reality. Classically, children come to …

The elicited-response false belief task has traditionally been considered as reliably
indicating that children acquire an understanding of false belief around 4years of age …

We present three investigations of children's early understanding of belief, that is, their
knowledge of such internal mental attitudes as thinking, knowing, and guessing. The …

Human learning may depend upon domain specialized mechanisms. A plausible example is
rapid, early learning about the thoughts and feelings of other people. A major achievement …

Abstract In 3 studies (N= 188) we tested the hypothesis that children use a perceptual
access approach to reason about mental states before they understand beliefs. The …