In recent decades, the ability to represent others' mental states (ie, theory of mind) has
gained particular attention in various disciplines ranging from ethology to cognitive …

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 …

The claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind—that they fail to understand that other
people have a mind or that they themselves have a mind—pervades psychology. This article …

Abstract Theory of mind (ToM; aka, mind‐reading, mentalizing, mental‐state attribution, and
perspective‐taking) is the ability to ascribe mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to …

Theory of mind (TOM), the ability to infer mental states to self and others, has been a
pervasive research theme across many disciplines including developmental, educational …

Human social life depends on theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to oneself
and others. A signature of theory of mind, false belief understanding, requires representing …

Abstract The commentary by Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate raises a number of
crucial issues concerning the replicability and validity of measures of false belief in infancy …

The ability to infer others' mental states is essential to social interactions. This ability,
critically evaluated by testing whether one attributes false beliefs (FBs) to others, has been …

How do people make causal judgements? In this paper, I show that counterfactual
simulations are necessary for explaining causal judgements about events, and that …

There are now over 30 published reports, spanning 11 different methods, providing
convergent evidence for false-belief understanding in children ages 6–36 months (for a …