Synchrony in the Onset of Mental-State Reasoning

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?

1978 • 7,949 citations

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

1983 • 6,001 citations

Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

1998 • 4,347 citations

Meta‐Analysis of Theory‐of‐Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief

2001 • 4,163 citations

Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children

1996 • 4,054 citations

Mindblindness: an essay on autism and theory of mind

1995 • 3,750 citations

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

1999 • 3,741 citations

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

2000 • 3,713 citations

Mindblindness

1995 • 3,081 citations

Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach

1998 • 1,917 citations

Developing theories of mind

1989 • 1,774 citations

Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis

1999 • 1,685 citations

Understanding other minds: perspectives from autism

1994 • 1,661 citations

Cultural learning

1993 • 1,658 citations

Three‐year‐olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit

1987 • 1,522 citations

Rational imitation in preverbal infants

2002 • 1,328 citations

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

1988 • 1,079 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

The Relation between Children's and Mothers’ Mental State Language and Theory‐of‐Mind Understanding

2002 • 821 citations

Development of the appearance-reality distinction

1983 • 645 citations

Cultural learning is cultural. [A commentary on Tomasello, Krugner and Ratner's "Cultural learning" Peer commentary by B. Schneuwly]

1993 • 604 citations

Theory of Mind Is Contagious: You Catch It from Your Sibs

1994 • 552 citations

Ethnopsychologies: Cultural variations in theories of mind.

1998 • 547 citations

Beliefs about beliefs [P&W, SR&B]

1978 • 529 citations

Understanding attention: 12- and 18-month-olds know what is new for other persons.

2003 • 415 citations

Deafness, Conversation and Theory of Mind

1995 • 408 citations

Developing theories of intention : social understanding and self-control

1999 • 379 citations

Signposts to Development: Theory of Mind in Deaf Children

2002 • 346 citations

Older (but not younger) siblings facilitate false belief understanding.

1998 • 339 citations

Environmental Effects on Motor Development: the Case of ‘African Infant Precocity’

1976 • 315 citations

Belief-Desire Reasoning among Baka Children: Evidence for a Universal Conception of Mind

1991 • 297 citations

Theory of Mind Is Contagious: You Catch It from Your Sibs

1994 • 294 citations

Belief-Desire Reasoning among Baka Children: Evidence for a Universal Conception of Mind

1991 • 241 citations

Children's Understanding of the Distinction between Real and Apparent Emotion

1986 • 235 citations

Young infants' sensitivity to movement information specifying social causality

1997 • 186 citations

Children's Understanding of Mind and Emotion: A Multi-culture Study

1999 • 156 citations

A Cross-Task Comparison of False Belief Understanding in a Head Start Population

1996 • 132 citations

Japanese Children's Understanding of the Distinction Between Real and Apparent Emotion

1988 • 109 citations

Junin Quechua Children's Understanding of Mind

1996 • 108 citations

Having Intentions, Understanding Intentions, and Understanding Communicative Intentions

2023 • 101 citations

Theory of Mind Development in Deaf Children: A Nonverbal Test of False-Belief Understanding

2001 • 98 citations

Why do infants make A not B errors in a search task, yet show memory for the location of hidden objects in a nonsearch task?

1998 • 89 citations

Causes of Development : Interdisciplinary Perspectives

1990 • 73 citations

Junin Quechua Children's Understanding of Mind

1996 • 70 citations

Locomotor milestones and babywalkers: cross sectional study

2002 • 69 citations

Age and Language Skills of Deaf Children in Relation to Theory of Mind Development

2002 • 66 citations

Understanding minds and evidence for belief: A study of Mofu children in Cameroon

2002 • 44 citations

Theory of mind.

1999 • 31 citations

The child's theory of mind and its cultural context.

1990 • 18 citations

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1955 • 0 citations