Meta-analyses comparing theory of mind abilities of individuals with autism, individuals with mental retardation, and normally developing individuals.

Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences

1990 • 65,781 citations

Acts of meaning

1991 • 8,432 citations

Autistic disturbances of affective contact

1943 • 8,089 citations

Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ?

1985 • 7,940 citations

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

1983 • 6,001 citations

Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind."

1987 • 3,011 citations

Autism: Explaining the Enigma

1989 • 2,592 citations

Severe impairments of social interaction and associated abnormalities in children: Epidemiology and classification

1979 • 2,523 citations

Understanding the Representational Mind

1993 • 2,409 citations

An advanced test of theory of mind: Understanding of story characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped, and normal children and adults

1994 • 2,206 citations

The Child's Theory of Mind

1990 • 1,817 citations

Developing theories of mind

1989 • 1,774 citations

Executive Function Deficits in High‐Functioning Autistic Individuals: Relationship to Theory of Mind

1991 • 1,700 citations

Understanding other minds: perspectives from autism

1994 • 1,661 citations

Interrelatedness of marital relations and parent-child relations: A meta-analytic review.

1995 • 1,439 citations

Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture

1994 • 1,369 citations

Schizophrenia, symptomatology and social inference: Investigating “theory of mind” in people with schizophrenia

1995 • 1,276 citations

Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

1988 • 1,071 citations

ToMM, ToBY, and Agency: Core architecture and domain specificity

1994 • 1,058 citations

Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading.

1992 • 1,054 citations

The Autistic Child's Theory of Mind: a Case of Specific Developmental Delay

1989 • 1,019 citations

The Role of Age and Verbal Ability in the Theory of Mind Task Performance of Subjects with Autism

1995 • 985 citations

How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality

1993 • 876 citations

Joint Attention

2014 • 865 citations

Exploring ‘theory of mind’ in people with schizophrenia

1996 • 806 citations

Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism

1992 • 787 citations

Mechanical, behavioural and Intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children

1986 • 772 citations

Exploration of the Autistic Child's Theory of Mind: Knowledge, Belief, and Communication

1989 • 682 citations

Autistic children's understanding of seeing, knowing and believing

1988 • 551 citations

Cognitive factors and family structure associated with theory of mind development in young children.

1996 • 531 citations

DSTAT : software for the meta-analytic review of research literatures

1989 • 509 citations

Autism: an introduction to psychological theory

1995 • 488 citations

Autistic children's difficulty with mental disengagement from an object: Its implications for theories of autism.

1993 • 478 citations

Small-Scale Deceit: Deception as a Marker of Two-, Three-, and Four-Year-Olds' Early Theories of Mind

1989 • 474 citations

Theory of mind development and social understanding

1995 • 467 citations

Children's Early Understanding of Mind: Origins and Development

1994 • 454 citations

How to build a baby that can read minds: Cognitive mechanisms in mindreading.

1994 • 454 citations

Recognition of Mental State Terms

1994 • 430 citations

Autism and theory of mind in everyday life

1994 • 421 citations

Deafness, Conversation and Theory of Mind

1995 • 408 citations

Children's Theories of Mind

2014 • 372 citations

Theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind

1991 • 371 citations

Does the autistic child have a metarepresentational deficit?

1991 • 353 citations

Young Children's Understanding of Changes in Their Mental States

1991 • 346 citations

Deception and Sabotage in Autistic, Retarded and Normal Children

1992 • 340 citations

Why Talk about Mental States? The Significance of Children's Conversations with Friends, Siblings, and Mothers

1996 • 314 citations

Are autistic children “Behaviorists”? An examination of their mental-physical and appearance-reality distinctions

1989 • 310 citations

The development of deception in young children

1991 • 290 citations

On acquiring knowledge about people and the capacity to pretend: Response to Leslie (1987).

1990 • 263 citations

Wechsler IQ Profile and Theory of Mind in Autism: A Research Note

1994 • 253 citations

Attributing mental states to story characters: A comparison of narratives produced by autistic and mentally retarded individuals

1995 • 253 citations

False belief understanding goes to school: On the social-emotional consequences of coming early or late to a first theory of mind

1995 • 248 citations

Autism : nature, diagnosis, and treatment

1989 • 248 citations

Young Children's Understanding of Fact Beliefs versus Value Beliefs

1990 • 248 citations

Autistic Children's Talk about Psychological States: Deficits in the Early Acquisition of a Theory of Mind

1992 • 247 citations

Atypical Cognitive Deficits in Developmental Disorders

2014 • 244 citations

Autistic Children's Knowledge of Thinking and Feeling States in Other People

1990 • 243 citations

Three-Year-Olds' Problems with False Belief: Conceptual Deficit or Linguistic Artifact?

1990 • 218 citations

Out of Sight or Out of Mind? Another Look at Deception in Autism

1992 • 205 citations

Fledgling Theories of Mind: Deception as a Marker of Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of False Belief

1991 • 202 citations

The eye direction detector (EDD) and the shared attention mechanism (SAM): Two cases for evolutionary psychology.

1995 • 197 citations

Children as psychologists: The later correlates of individual differences in understanding of emotions and other minds

1995 • 195 citations

Understanding Drawings and Beliefs: a Further Test of the Metarepresentation Theory of Autism: a Research Note

1992 • 191 citations

Perspectives on perspective taking.

1992 • 189 citations

Nonverbal Communication Skills in Down Syndrome Children

1988 • 184 citations

The Development of a Theory of Mind in Autism: Deviance and Delay?

1991 • 184 citations

Cognitive linguistic correlates of ‘theory of mind’ ability in autistic children

1991 • 180 citations

Young Children's Conceptualization of Pretense: Action or Mental Representational State?

1993 • 150 citations

Understanding persons; the role of affect

1993 • 148 citations

A comparative study of autistic subjects' performance at two levels of visual and cognitive perspective taking

1990 • 148 citations

Piaget's Theory

2013 • 145 citations

Theory of Mind and Rule Use in Individuals With Down's Syndrome: A Test of the Uniqueness and Specificity Claims

1996 • 141 citations

Predicting and Explaining Behavior: A Comparison of Autistic, Mentally Retarded and Normal Children

1994 • 131 citations

The recognition of attitude conveyed by utterance: A study of preschool and autistic children

1991 • 130 citations

The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1995 Children's Relationships: Bridging the Divide Between Cognitive and Social Development

1996 • 127 citations

Autistic children understand seeing and wanting

1991 • 124 citations

Theory of Mind Abilities in Individuals With Autism, Down Syndrome, and Mental Retardation of Unknown Etiology: The Role of Age and Intelligence

1996 • 108 citations

A second look at second-order belief attribution in autism

1994 • 104 citations

Affect and attention in children with Down syndrome.

1990 • 96 citations

The ‘seeing‐leads‐to‐knowing’ deficit in autism: The Pratt and Bryant probe

1994 • 94 citations

The ABCs of deception: Do young children understand deception in the same way as adults?

1993 • 92 citations

Role taking and social competence in autism and mental retardation

1989 • 82 citations

Body or Mind: Children's Categorizing of Pretense

1996 • 80 citations

A model of the mindreading system: Neuropsychological and neurobiological perspectives.

1994 • 74 citations

Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology

1996 • 68 citations

The Cognitive Revolution in Children’s Understanding of Mind

1995 • 64 citations

Can Autistic Children Distinguish Lies from Jokes? A Second Look at Second‐order Belief Attribution

1994 • 61 citations

Theories of mind in infancy

1996 • 59 citations

Traveler's Guide to Children's Theories of Mind

1992 • 58 citations

Development of a theory of mind in individuals with mental retardation.

1993 • 57 citations

Understanding photos, models, and beliefs: A test of the modularity thesis of theory of mind

1995 • 56 citations

Perceptual and cognitive development

2017 • 56 citations

Concerning knowledge of mental states

1990 • 53 citations

The ability to manipulate behavior and to understand manipulation of beliefs: A comparison of individuals with autism, mental retardation, and normal development.

1996 • 48 citations

Perspectives on the Child's Theory of Mind

1991 • 45 citations

Clustering estimates of effect magnitude from independent studies.

1983 • 44 citations

The New Theory of Theory of Mind

1992 • 43 citations

Beyond sensorimotor functioning: Early communicative and play development of children with Down syndrome: A developmental perspective

1990 • 40 citations

The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: Explanation, evidence and assessment

1989 • 36 citations

Seriation, conservation, and theory of mind abilities in individuals with autism, individuals with mental retardation, and normally developing children.

1996 • 35 citations

Performance of autistic and control subjects on three cognitive perspective-taking tasks

1994 • 26 citations

Webster's desk dictionary of the English language

1990 • 21 citations

Debate and Argument: Clarifying Developmental Issues in the Study of Autism

1992 • 20 citations

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1955 • 0 citations