Certain simple visual displays consisting of moving 2-D geometric shapes can give rise to
percepts with high-level properties such as causality and animacy. This article reviews …

We present a developmental model that describes normal peer relations and highlights
processes that underlie the emergence of problems with peers in childhood. We propose …

In two experiments, we investigated whether 13-month-old infants expect agents to behave
in a way that is consistent with information to which they have been exposed. Infants …

The authors examine recent theoretical perspectives of the development of the animate–
inanimate distinction in infancy. From these theoretical views emerge 7 characteristic …

The present research examined whether 12.5-month-old infants take into account what
objects an agent knows to be present in a scene when interpreting the agent's actions. In …

It is now widely accepted that sensitivity to goal‐directed actions emerges during the first
year of life. However, controversy still surrounds the question of how this sensitivity emerges …

The ability to construe ourselves and others as agents with minds having mental states such
as perceptions, attention, desires and beliefs, is critical to humans' social, linguistic, and …

Human‐evolved intuitive ontology comprises a catalogue of broad domains of information,
different sets of principles applied to these different domains as well as different learning …

This article reviews recent evidence for the claim that infants possess a theory of mind. Two
conceptual systems (CS) of psychological reasoning are distinguished: CS1, underlying the …

Prior research on implicit mind‐reading skills has focussed on how infants anticipate other
persons' actions. This study investigated whether 11‐and 17‐month‐olds spontaneously …