Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

At what age can children attribute false beliefs to others? Traditionally, investigations into
this question have used elicited-response tasks in which children are asked a direct …

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 …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Preschoolers' theory-of-mind development follows a similar age trajectory across many
cultures. To determine whether these similarities are related to similar underlying …

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our
world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at …

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 …

While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

Intense controversy surrounds the question of when children first understand that others can
hold false beliefs. Results from traditional tasks suggest that false-belief understanding does …