Metacognition–the ability to represent, monitor and control ongoing cognitive processes–
helps us perform many tasks, both when acting alone and when working with others. While …

Social cognition is a topic of enormous interest and much research, but we are far from
having an agreed taxonomy or factor structure of relevant processes. The aim of this review …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …

Mentalizing-the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie
behind overt behaviour-develops within the context of attachment relationships. It is crucial …

In a large-scale (N= 317) prospective 8-year longitudinal multiage, multidomain,
multivariate, multisource study, we tested a conservative three-term model linking parenting …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

Background We use “theory of mind” or “mind reading” to understand our own thoughts and
feelings and those of other agents. Mind reading has been a focus of philosophical interest …

What role does socialization play in the origins of prosocial behavior? We examined one
potential socialization mechanism–parents' discourse about others' emotions with very …

OBJECTIVE: To test the independent association of adult language input, television viewing,
and adult-child conversations on language acquisition among infants and toddlers …