Theory of Mind for Learning and Teaching: The Nature and Role of Explanation.

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A meta-analysis of the five-factor model of personality and academic performance. (2009, background): “…primary school years, children undergo complex developmental processes, including changes in cognitive complexity and psychological understanding (Wellman & Lagattuta, 2004), that are likely to affect their ratings of their own personality and hence to moderate the correlation between…”
The Instrumental Value of Explanations (2011, background): “Effects of explanation have been shown to accelerate difficult conceptual transitions in childhood, including an understanding of numerical conservation (Siegler 2002) and acquisition of false belief understanding in theory of mind (Wellman and Lagattuta 2004; Amsterlaw and Wellman 2006).”