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

TL;DR: This paper examined relations between the understanding of gratitude (GRA) and the development of a theory of mind (TOM) and found that children who perform better on TOM tasks have better GRA, while TOM is a necessary condition for GRA.

TL;DR: This article model the behavioral data obtained from the studies using the interactive partially observable Markov decision process, appropriately simplified and augmented with well-known models simulating human learning and decision, and indicates that these could be viable ways for computationally modeling strategic behavioral data in a general way.

TL;DR: Both cognitive and affective empathy are associated with memory formation, but in different ways, depending on the social nature of the memory content.

TL;DR: The authors examined the frequency of mental state talk in children's oral recall of narrative texts and informational texts as well as relations among theory of mind, mental state words, and discourse comprehension.

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.