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Mental-State Reasoning Is Universal Milestone in Child Development

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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Mental-State Reasoning Is Universal Milestone in Child Development

A major social-cognitive achievement of young children is the understanding that other people act on the basis of their own representations of reality rather than on the basis of reality itself. Developmental psychologists have explored the refinement …

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