Beliefs about beliefs: representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception.

By Heinz Wimmer, Josef Perner. 1983

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “As a measure of this ability in humans, psychologists developed the Sally Ann false-belief test (Wimmer and Perner, 1983), in which two people (Sally and Ann) are together in a room with a ball, a basket, and a box, and while Sally is away, Ann moves the ball from the basket to the box.”
Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, positive): “These beliefs and desires can be used to predict aspects of a person’s actions, emotions, and other mental states, especially when the person’s beliefs and desires differ from those of the observer (Wellman et al., 2001; Wimmer and Perner, 1983).”
Machine Theory of Mind (2018, methodology): “Here, experimenters have often utilised variants of the classic “Sally-Anne test” (Wimmer & Perner, 1983; Baron-Cohen et al., 1985) to probe subjects’ models of others.”
Inferring the Why in Images (2014, background): “Humans may be able to make such remarkable inferences partially due to cognitive skills known as the theory of mind [34].”
Bayesian Theory of Mind: Modeling Joint Belief-Desire Attribution (2011, background): “Goodman et al. (2006) model how belief and desire inferences interact in the classic " false belief " task used to assess ToM reasoning in children (Wimmer & Perner, 1983).”
How language does (and does not) relate to theory of mind: A longitudinal study of syntax, semantics, working memory and false belief (2005, methodology): “Three false belief tasks were used at both time points: two unexpected transfer tasks ( Wimmer & Perner, 1983 ) and one unexpected contents task (Perner, Leekam, & Wimmer, 1987).”
Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding (2008, unknown): “Consider, for example, the unexpected-transfer task described by Wimmer and Perner (1983).”
The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: review of literature and implications for future research. (2006, background): “Wimmer and Perner (1983) developed a new paradigm to study the ability to mentalize in children.”
Empathy: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach (2009, background): “The understanding that others have an internal mental landscape that differs from our own is a critical step in development and usually comes on-line at around age 4 (Wimmer & Perner, 1983).”
Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind." (1987, background): “Wimmer and Perner (1983) argued that it was not until 4 years of age that the child could conceive simultaneously of two contradictory models of reality.”