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Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Arnott, Bronia; Leekam, Susan R.; de Rosnay, Marc – Child Development, 2013
Relations among indices of maternal mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments) and children's: (a) internal state vocabulary and perspectival symbolic play at 26 months ("N" = 206), and (b) theory of mind (ToM) at 51 months ("n" = 161) were investigated. Appropriate comments were positively…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Play, Child Development, Mothers
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Scheeren, Anke M.; de Rosnay, Marc; Koot, Hans M.; Begeer, Sander – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The sociocommunicative problems in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are traditionally linked to impairments in Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to ascribe mental states to others. Although ToM impairments are consistently reported in young children with ASD, findings on more advanced ToM understanding in older individuals with…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Theory of Mind, Children
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de Rosnay, Marc; Pons, Francisco; Harris, Paul L.; Morrell, Julian M. B. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examines the contribution of children's linguistic ability and mothers' use of mental-state language to young children's understanding of false belief and their subsequent ability to make belief-based emotion attributions. In Experiment 1, children (N = 51) were given three belief-based emotion-attribution tasks. A standard task in…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Video Technology, Mothers, Semantics