We explore three types of criticisms of our theory on the development of children's social
understanding. We reject suggestions that we offer nothing new to traditional theories of …

Though there is empirical support for the relation between parents' mental state talk to
children and children's social understanding, including false belief understanding (FBU) and …

Numerous studies show that children's language ability is related to false‐belief
understanding. However, there is considerable variation in the size of the correlation …

Relations among indices of maternal mind‐mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind‐
related comments) and children's:(a) internal state vocabulary and perspectival symbolic …

This paper presents a selective review of the literature addressing the influence of young
children's conversational environments and interactions on their psychological …

Objective Insecure attachment and mentalizing difficulties have been associated with eating
pathology in adulthood. However, it is unclear whether eating pathology is associated with …

Exposure to different forms of narrative media may influence children's development of
theory-of-mind. Because engagement with fictional narratives provides one with information …

In 2 studies mothers read wordless storybooks to their preschool‐aged children; narratives
were analyzed for mental state language. Children's theory‐of‐mind understanding (ToM) …

The current longitudinal study examined the roles of theory of mind, counterfactual
reasoning, and executive function in children's pre-reading skills, reading awareness, and …

The study examined the efficacy of an intervention designed to promote parents' and
preschoolers' references to storybooks' plot and socio-cognitive themes during shared …