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 …

Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

A growing body of infant studies with various implicit, non-verbal measures has suggested
that Theory of Mind (ToM) may emerge much earlier than previously assumed. While explicit …

Recently, theory-of-mind research has been revolutionized by findings from novel implicit
tasks suggesting that at least some aspects of false-belief reasoning develop earlier in …

Abstract The commentary by Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate raises a number of
crucial issues concerning the replicability and validity of measures of false belief in infancy …

Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

The most dominant theory of human social cognition, the theory of mind hypothesis,
emphasizes our ability to infer the mental states of others. After having represented the …

Abstract Theory of Mind (ToM) is thought to play a key role in social information processing
as it refers to the ability of individuals to represent the mental states of others (eg, intentions …

In this article, I briefly review theories about the development of theory of mind, and then
examine evidence for minimalism, the idea that infants initially understand only behaviors …