Theory of mind and epistemological development: the relation between children's second-order false-belief understanding and their ability to reason about evidence

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Social functioning in major depressive disorder. (2016, unknown): “Second-order beliefs refer to the ability to infer what one person thinks about another person's thoughts (Astington et al., 2002).”
Individual Differences in Early Scientific Thinking: Assessment, Cognitive Influences, and Their Relevance for Science Learning (2019, background): “…their beliefs are not directly supported by evidence (which is the naïve epistemological position, also referred to as the copy theory of knowledge (Carey et al., 1989), but that rather our interpretations of the evidence speak for or against a hypothesis (Astington et al., 2002; Osterhaus et al.).”
Disentangling Robust Developmental Constraints From the Instructionally Mutable: Young Children's Epistemic Reasoning About a Study of Their Own Design (2011, background): “Astington, Pelletier, and Homer (2002) found substantial development from kindergarten to first grade in children’s capacity to differentiate evidence for a belief from the actual cause of the event (“Why p?””