Successful navigation of the social environment is dependent on a number of social
cognitive processes, including mentalizing and resistance to peer influence. These …

Mentalizing is the capacity to understand ourselves and others in terms of intentional mental
states, such as feelings, desires, wishes, attitudes, and goals. It is a fundamental capacity in …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the
landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy …

Human adults recruit distinct networks of brain regions to think about the bodies and minds
of others. This study characterizes the development of these networks, and tests for …

The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is considered a hub for social perception and cognition,
including the perception of faces and human motion, as well as understanding others' …

The right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is widely considered as part of a network that
reorients attention to task-relevant, but currently unattended stimuli (Corbetta and Shulman …

As a starting point for our review we use a developmental timeline, starting from birth and
divided into major developmental epochs defined by key milestones of social cognition in …

This paper reviews recent theoretical, empirical, and clinical work related to parental
reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing. PRF refers to the capacity of the parent …

Adolescence has been characterized as a period of heightened sensitivity to social contexts.
However, adolescents vary in how their social contexts affect them. According to …