Major developments in attachment research over the past 2 decades have introduced
parental mentalization as a predictor of infant–parent attachment security. Parental …

Mentalizing—the capacity to understand others' and one's own behavior in terms of mental
states—is a defining human social and psychological achievement. It involves a complex …

A new developmental model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment is
advanced based on evolutionary considerations concerning the role of attachment …

Theory of mind (TOM), the ability to infer mental states to self and others, has been a
pervasive research theme across many disciplines including developmental, educational …

Mind-mindedness refers to a caregiver's tendency to treat the young child as an individual
with a mind of his or her own. It is assessed in the first year of life by the caregiver's tendency …

Theory of Mind (ToM) is one of the most relevant concepts in the field of social cognition,
particularly in the case of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Literature showing that …

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

Attachment researchers following Mary Ainsworth focused primarily on observations of
maternal sensitive behavior, however, and the processes underlying such behavior were …

Relations between mothers' tendency to comment appropriately on their 8-month-olds'
internal states (mind-mindedness) and children's behavioral difficulties (Strengths and …

Research on the development of planning is reviewed in the context of a framework that
considers the role of three types of cognitive flexibility in planning development: event …