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 …

Wo früher Gesellschaftstheorien auf Kommunikation setzten, erscheint nun zunehmend
Empathie oder Einfühlung als Kitt, der die Gemeinschaften zusammenhält. Doch was genau …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

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 …

Theory of mind, or" mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about
beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by …

The development of theory of mind use was investigated by giving a computerized task to
177 female participants divided into five age groups: Child I (7.3–9.7 years); Child II (9.8 …

Hominin evolution took a remarkable pathway, as the foraging strategy extended to large
mammalian prey already hunted by a guild of specialist carnivores. How was this possible …

The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

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 …