Pretend play is a form of playful behavior that involves nonliteral action. Although on the
surface this activity appears to be merely for fun, recent research has discovered that …

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of
sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

This response defends the view that human metacognition results from us turning our
mindreading capacities upon ourselves, and that our access to our own propositional …

Young children spend a large portion of their time pretending about non‐real situations.
Why? We answer this question by using the framework of Bayesian causal models to argue …

Children spend many of their waking hours engaged in play, and this is frequently claimed
to be crucially important to children's development (Lillard et al., 2013; Wilson, 1975) …

Over the past 25 years, a great deal of research has been carried out on social cognition in
infancy. This research can be roughly organized into two sets of questions that map neatly …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Are 15-month-old infants able to detect a violation in the consistency of an event sequence
that involves pretense? In Experiment 1, infants detected a violation when an actor …

The aim of this research was to provide an articulated assessment of several different ToM
components, namely first-vs. third-person, egocentric vs. allocentric, and first-vs. second …