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

TL;DR: In this article , a meta-analysis was conducted to quantify the strength of the association between mentalization and anxiety/internalizing problems and to identify potential moderators of this association, which supported the presence of modest impairments in the mentalizing capacities of anxious individuals, likely influenced by their vulnerability to stress and the context in which they mentalize.

TL;DR: It is concluded that reasoning about others' beliefs and actions requires similar cognitive processes as using counterfactual suppositions, which question the explanatory power of the traditional frameworks, theory theory and simulation theory, in favor of views that explicitly provide for a relationship between false belief reasoning andcounterfactual reasoning.

TL;DR: The patients with congenital heart disease performed worse than the controls on the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale, whereas they did as well as the control group on the classical theory-of-mind tasks.

TL;DR: Evidence that observers aged 5-9 years can reverse ambiguous figures when uninformed about the ambiguity is presented, negating purely top-down explanations and those children who make these 'spontaneous' reversals are more likely to succeed on a high-order theory-of-mind task.

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.