Making Minds: How Theory of Mind Develops

By Henry Wellman. 2014

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How to ascribe beliefs to animals (2020, background): “In other words, we know that 3-year-olds have informational states of this type as separate from desires (since they handle desires as quite decoupled; Wellman, 2014), and it is very fruitful to describe the informational state as structured: being about a person, the property of coming and the time”
How (not) to measure infant Theory of Mind: Testing the replicability and validity of four non-verbal measures (2018, background): “How does our capacity to understand each other as rational agents with an inner life and subjective perspectives on the world, also known as “Theory of Mind” (ToM), develop? An enormous research program in developmental psychology has been devoted to this question over the last decades (Wellman, 201”
Probing the depth of infants’ theory of mind: Disunity in performance across paradigms (2017, background): “The development of this ability, also known as a Theory of Mind (ToM), has been well researched over the past 30 years (Wellman, 2014).”
Theory of mind: The state of the art* (2018, background): “While these studies are clever and revealing, how their findings should best be interpreted remains controversial, prompting, for example, further research and research summaries (for critical reviews, see e.g. Heyes, 2014; Sodian, 2011; Wellman, 2014).”
Theory of Mind: a Hidden Factor in Reading Comprehension? (2018, background): “Research in ToM has led to a rich multifaceted literature in developmental psychology (for reviews see Flavell 2004; Wellman 2014); here, we give only an overview and share some key understandings from this very active area.”
The Naïve Utility Calculus: Computational Principles Underlying Commonsense Psychology. (2016, background): “Work on how children reason about other agents’ goals [1-8], desires [9-11], beliefs [12-18], and pro-social behavior [19-29] has advanced our understanding of what in our commonsense psychology is at work in early infancy [30-32] and what develops [16-17,33-35].”
Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (2017, background): “Mental state inference (or “mentalizing”) in adults likely draws on a diverse set of representations and processes, but our focus is on a capacity that appears in some form in infancy [36, 53, 8, 17, 28, 6] and persists as a richer theory of mind develops through the first years of life [52, 51].”