Meta-analysis of theory-of-mind development

By Henry Wellman, D. Cross, Julanne Watson. 2001

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Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “Recall that Woodward (1998) found that 5- to 9-month-olds failed at two-object tasks in which the human agent’s arm was replaced with a rod, an arm-shaped screen, or a mechanical claw; that Csibra et al.”
Using Theory of Mind to represent and take part in social interactions: Comparing individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls (2010, methodology): “In the widely used standard falsebelief task, which is assumed to demonstrate a fully-fledged ToM from six years of age onward (Wellman et al., 2001; Wimmer & Perner, 1983), the subject knows the actual hiding location of an object and also knows that another person falsely believes it is hidden in ”
Telling the story of theory of mind: Deaf and hearing children's narratives and mental state understanding (2006, methodology): “To address these limitations, we included an inferential test of FB understanding in Study 1 in order to directly examine the relationship between this ‘litmus test’ of ToM (Wellman et al., 2001) and aspects of children’s spontaneous narrative talk using various categories of mental state language t”
Perspective-Taking and its Foundation in Joint Attention (2011, background): “While 2A is well in place by 3 years of age, 2B emerges at around 4.5 years, as has been established and replicated in numerous false beliefand sinlllar theory ofnlind tasks (see e.g., Wellman, Cross, and Watson, 2001).”
Theories of Mind in Transition: A Microgenetic Study of the Development of False Belief Understanding (2006, background): “Wellman et al.’s (2001) meta-analysis shows that children perform similarly on FB tasks regardless of format (e.”
Preschoolers' Emotion Regulation Strategy Understanding: Relations with Emotion Socialization and Child Self-regulation (2009, background): “…ages of 3 and 4 years, children acquire a myriad of new skills, including developing a theory of mind (Gopnik & Wellman, 1994; Gopnik et al., 1994; Wellman et al., 2001), beginning to delay dominant responses in rulegoverned ways (Carlson, 2005), and spontaneously attempting to regulate the…”