Mind-mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to treat the young child as an individual
with a mind of his or her own. It is assessed in the first year of life by the caregiver's tendency …

Though there is empirical support for the relation between parents' mental state talk to
children and children's social understanding, including false belief understanding (FBU) and …

Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and
accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children's …

Various lines of research suggest that parental mind-mindedness can facilitate children's
cognitive and social growth (eg, executive functions and social cognition) in addition to …

Parental mind-mindedness, the parent's propensity to treat the child as an intentional agent,
has repeatedly shown to promote children's development of social understanding and …

The main aim of this study was to test whether mothers'(n= 116) and fathers'(n= 116) mind‐
mindedness predicts infants' physiological emotion regulation (heart rate variability; HRV) …

We conducted a systematic review of longitudinal theory of mind (ToM) studies, focusing on
the precursors to and functional outcomes of ToM in typically-developing samples. Our …

Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants,
however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are …

Relations between two forms of parental mentalizing—maternal mind‐mindedness
(appropriate and nonattuned mind‐related comments) and parental embodied mentalizing …

The relations among maternal depression risk, maternal mind-mindedness, and infants'
attachment behavior were longitudinally examined in a community sample of mother-infant …