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 …

For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

Understanding the origins of human social cognition is a central challenge in contemporary
science. In recent decades, the idea of a 'Theory of Mind'(ToM) has emerged as the most …

The study by Southgate et al.(2007 Psychol. Sci. 18, 587–592.(doi: 10.1111/j. 1467-
9280.2007. 01944. x)) has been widely cited as evidence for false-belief attribution in young …

Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an
attractive methodological addition to in‐person eye‐tracking in the lab. However, there is a …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where
a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material …

Humans have a propensity to readily adopt others' perspective, which often influences their
behavior even when it seemingly should not. This altercentric influence has been widely …

The cognitive ability to think about other people's psychological states is known
asmindreading'. This Element critiques assumptions that have been formative in shaping …

While pre-verbal infants may be sensitive to others' mental states, they are not able to
accurately answer questions about them until several years later, an ability referred to as …