Mark A. Sabbagh

TL;DR: The relation between executive functioning and theory of mind is robust across two disparate cultures, shedding light on why executive functioning is important for theory-of-mind development.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that theory-of-mind developments impact word learning, and whether children consider speakers' knowledge states when establishing initial word-referent links is addressed.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that the developmental roots of autism might lie in abnormal functioning of the orbitofrontal/medial temporal circuit which may, in turn, underlie the abnormal development of social-cognitive skills among individuals with autism.

TL;DR: The findings show parallel developmental trajectories of false-belief understanding for children in China and North America coupled with significant differences in the timing of development across communities-children's false-Belief performance varied across different locales by as much as 2 or more years, which support the importance of both universal trajectories and specific experiential factors in the development of theory of mind.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that severely depressed individuals are significantly impaired in their ability to decode others' mental states, and strategies based on improving basic theory-of-mind reasoning could be incorporated into current therapeutic interventions for depressed individuals to ameliorate their understanding and interpretation of social information.