Executive function (EF), the set of mental processes and skills involved in goal-oriented
planning, organizing, and controlling behavior, is believed to support child development …

Scientific research on how children learn to tell lies has existed for more than a century.
Earlier studies mainly focused on moral, social, and situational factors contributing to the …

Вниманию читателя представлена вторая монография, посвященная становлению
модели психического, которая является когнитивным механизмом социального …

Theory of mind has been perhaps the most heavily researched topic in developmental
psychology for close to 30 years. Most research, as well as most secondary accounts, has …

Deception is a form of manipulation aimed at misleading another person by conveying false
or truthful messages. Manipulative truthful statements could be considered as sophisticated …

In highly competitive contexts, deceptive intentions might be transparent, so conveying only
false information to the opponent can become a predictable strategy. In such situations …

The relation between children'lying behaviour and their mental state understanding was
investigated among a group of 3‐and 4‐year‐olds (total N= 97). Two types of lying were …

Children are often third-party observers of conversations between informants and receivers.
Although 5-and 6-year-olds can identify and reject informants' false testimony, it remains …

Competing for limited resources with peers is common among children from an early age,
illustrating their propensity to use deceptive strategies to win. We focused on how primary …

Sophisticated deception refers to the deception of others based on inferences of their mental
states (eg, answering honestly when inferring that the other will not believe their answer) …