Can infants appreciate that others have false beliefs? Do they have a theory of mind? In this
article I provide a detailed review of more than 20 experiments that have addressed these …

At what age can children attribute false beliefs to others? Traditionally, investigations into
this question have used elicited-response tasks in which children are asked a direct …

Recently, several studies have claimed that soon after their first birthday infants understand
others' false beliefs. However, some have questioned these findings based on criticisms of …

This paper provides a minimalist framework for understanding the development of children's
theory of mind (ToM). First, I provide a critical analysis of rich interpretations of ToM tasks …

Piaget's body of work had two major theoretical thrusts: constructivism and stage theory.
Both constructivism and stage theories articulate modern work on conceptual development …

Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category)
2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in …

The violation‐of‐expectation (VOE) paradigm and related methods are the main tools used
to study high‐level cognition in preverbal infants. Infants' differential looking to conceptually …

A 12-month-old infant makes a request by pointing toward a cracker. A 4-year-old masters
the game of hide-and-seek, learning that the seeker should not be able to see where one is …

Behaviorism I remember as the doctrine of the black box: stick to the observable input and
output of a system, and refrain from theorizing about the system's internal clockwork of cog …

From early in life, infants watch other people's actions. How do young infants come to make
sense of actions they observe? Here, we review empirical findings on the development of …