Theory of Mind in Preadolescence: Relations Between Social Understanding and Social Competence

By Sandra Leanne Bosacki, Janet Wilde Astington. 2001

304 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Bethany Liddle
2. T. Charman
3. F. Pons
4. Paul L. Harris
5. Daniel Nettle
6. Stephanie M. Carlson
7. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
8. Colin G. DeYoung

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. F. Pons
2. Paul L. Harris
3. T. Ruffman
4. T. Charman
5. Stephanie M. Carlson
6. Bethany Liddle
7. Daniel Nettle
8. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

In Social Psychology

1. T. Charman
2. Paul L. Harris
3. F. Pons
4. Stephanie M. Carlson
5. Bethany Liddle
6. Daniel Nettle
7. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
8. T. Ruffman

Citations in the corpus

• Social cognitive development during adolescence. (2006, background): “While viewing faces with fearful emotional expressions, compared with adults, adolescents exhibited greater activation of the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) (Monk et al. 2003).”
• Teaching emotion understanding (2002, background): “Finally, in a study with pre-adolescents (11 to 13 years) Bosacki and Astington (1999) found a significant, positive relation between the understanding of emotions and social skills as judged by teachers.”
• Is there a Gender Difference in False Belief Development (2002, background): “Second, the advantage has been linked to female advantages in social competence in pre-adolescents and adolescents (Bosacki & Astington, 1999; Mathews & Keating, 1995), and to the largely male condition of autism (Baron-Cohen & Hammer, 1997; Skuse, 2000).”
• HIGHER-ORDER THEORY OF MIND AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN (2006, result): “This is in contrast to the pattern more widely observed in children (BOSACKI and ASTINGTON 1999) and adults (e.”
• Theory of Mind Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: The Growing Complexity of Recursive Thinking Ability (2015, background): “Finally, in the Social Understanding Tasks devised by Bosacki and Astington (1999) the subject has to answer some questions regarding a social situation, referring to conceptual role-taking, empathetic sensitivity, person perception, and so on.”
• Developmentally Sensitive Measures of Executive Function in Preschool Children (2005, background): “In turn, self-regulation and theory of mind are implicated in older children’s social competence (e.g., Bosacki & Astington, 1999).”