Research on theory of mind increasingly encompasses apparently contradictory findings. In
particular, in initial studies, older preschoolers consistently passed false‐belief tasks—a so …

▪ Abstract This chapter reviews theory and research on the development of children's
knowledge about the mental world, focusing especially on work done during the past 15 …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

This research examined the relation between individual differences in inhibitory control (IC;
a central component of executive functioning) and theory‐of‐mind (ToM) performance in …

Investigated was whether children would re-enact what an adult actually did or what the
adult intended to do. In Experiment 1 children were shown an adult who tried, but failed, to …

What, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding
first emerge? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these …

This is a book about domain-specific cognition-the proposal that at least some human
conceptual abilities are specialized for some types of contents and not for others. In this …

When perceiving, explaining, or criticizing human behavior, people distinguish between
intentional and unintentional actions. To do so, they rely on a shared folk concept of …

Several studies have demonstrated a relation between executive functioning (EF) and
theory of mind (ToM) in preschoolers, yet the developmental course of this relation remains …

The false belief task has often been used as a test of theory of mind. We present two reasons
to abandon this practice. First, passing the false belief task requires abilities other than …