… A variation on unexpectedcontents tasks are unexpected-identity tasks, in which a false
belief is engendered by an object with a deceptive identity (eg, a sponge that looks just like a …

The false belief task has often been used as a test of theory of mind. We present two reasons
to abandon this practice. First, passing the false belief task requires abilities other than …

… relation between false belief and language in studies where the false-belief assessment
preceded the language assessment by 3 months or more, and/or the false-belief assessment …

… We retarn now to the views of those still ready to equate false belief understanding with a
subscription to an interpretive theory of mind. Pemer (1991) is perhaps most explicit. This …

… We first searched relevant databases, journals, and abstracts of recent conferences for
studies on theory of mind, false belief, belief reasoning, understanding mental states, and folk or …

… We test this account empirically by showing children the standard outcome of the … of theory
of mind as applied to the false belief task. This framework realizes false belief reasoning as …

… We argue that false belief tasks have two primary components: the ability to represent
another's belief state, and the ability to ignore the pull of reality and/or one's own privileged …

… The main development that theory-of-mind researchers have examined so far … beliefs (and
false beliefs) about the world, but that they also have beliefs about the content of others’ minds …

… false-belief test was comparable to that found in most standard, verbal versions of false-belief
tasks, we assumed that the nonverbal task … capacity to attribute false belief and to compare …

… on non-inferential false belief tasks. However, emergence accounts could not explain any
difficulty that adults might have on non-inferential false belief tasks since the requisite ToM …