Three-year old Emily greets her grandfather at the front door: "We're having a surprise party for your birthday! And it's a secret!" We may smile at incidents like these, but they illustrate the begi
"Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children's understanding of people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions, and whose actions and interactions
Cognitive and social scientists explore questions concerning intentionality as it is manifested in a wide variety of contexts, including imitation in infancy, early understanding of mental states, rea
