How Children Develop Social Understanding

Preface.

1. Social Understanding and Social Interaction: An introduction to the issues.

2. Contemporary Theories of Social Understanding.

3. Understanding False Beliefs.

4. The Development of Social Understanding in Infancy.

5. Domain General Approaches to Reasoning about the Mind.

6. Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding: The role of relationships in social cognitive development.

7. Language and Social Understanding.

8. Beyond (False) Belief: What do preschoolers still have to learn about the mind?.

9. Social Understanding and Children's Social Lives.

10. Constructing an Understanding of Mind.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.