“John thinks that Mary thinks that…” attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children ☆

TL;DR: The protocol for the temptation resistance paradigm was designed to elicit 2- to 8-year-old children's strategic lie-telling behaviors so that children's spontaneous lie- telling behavior in the presence of irreversible evidence due to the transgression could be observed.

TL;DR: Hannah Arendt’s (1971) distinction between thinking and judging is applied to clarify the form of judgment which is addressed in critical thinking, as reinterpreted here.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between social cognitive abilities and social functioning in children with Asperger's disorder (AS) and found that children with AS performed worse on the Mind in the Eyes task compared to children with ADHD.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relation between syntactic and pragmatic adequacy of sentence productions and second-order false belief (FB) reasoning in five-year-old children and found that syntactic adequacy was a necessary precondition of more complex forms of theory of mind reasoning.

TL;DR: A travelling salesman found himself spending the night at home with his wife when one of his trips was unexpectedly cancelled, and he leapt out from the bed, ran across the room and jumped out the window.

Abstract: Binary response variables special logistical analyses some complications some related approaches more complex responses. Appendices: Theoretical background Choice of explanatory variables in multiple regression Review of computational aspects Further results and exercises.