… One of the most fundamental tools we have for social cognition is the ability to infer the mental
states of others, known as theory-of-mind (ToM) or mentalizing (Carruthers & Smith 1996, …

… We argue that adequate language and adequate social skills are jointly causally sufficient, …
Thus our account supports a social developmental theory of the genesis of human cognition…

… phylogenetics,” has substantial promise to fuel our understanding of the evolution and neural
basis of both human language and culture, and social cognition more generally. Although …

… in deaf education, or proposals to make English the national language of the … language
and human social groups has roots in human infancy, where it guides early-developing social …

… This study examined social cognition and reading skill in TD and HFASD samples spanning
middle childhood through adolescence, and one would expect these skills to develop over …

… Is language understanding a special case of social cognition? To help evaluate this view, we
… language comprehension as a rational inference based on an intuitive theory of language …

Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of children's social cognitions on their ability
to monitor their comprehension in the referential communication paradigm. Specifically, it …

… fits with other components of cognition. More generally, we explore how analysis of
discourse deficits can aid development of a neuropsychology of social cognition. We begin with …

… , we propose that social cognition can and should be enriched by an explicit recognition
that conceptual metaphor is a unique cognitive mechanism that shapes social thought and …

… crucial tasks of social cognition research, viz. to establish a link between a social relation,
namely power, on the one hand, and its representation in social cognition, and communication …