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 …

On the 30th anniversary of Premack and Woodruff's seminal paper asking whether
chimpanzees have a theory of mind, we review recent evidence that suggests in many …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Since the BBS article in which Premack and Woodruff (1978) asked “Does the chimpanzee
have a theory of mind?,” it has been repeatedly claimed that there is observational and …

Since the last common ancestor shared by modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, the
lineage leading to Homo sapiens has undergone a substantial change in brain size and …

Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy.
However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior …

Humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor about 5 to 6 million years ago.
Single-nucleotide substitutions occur at a mean rate of 1.23% between copies of the human …

In this paper, we summarize a series of studies on the developmental changes in social
cognition in mother‐raised infant chimpanzees from birth to around 2 years old. The infants …

The comparative study of infant development and animal cognition brings to cognitive
science the promise of insights into the nature and origins of cognitive skills. In this article, I …

A comparative developmental framework was used to determine whether mutual gaze is
unique to humans and, if not, whether common mechanisms support the development of …