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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 46-64Publisher
PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/17405620601047053
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This paper reviews early precursors to social cognition in infancy, then critically reviews infancy work suggesting goal attribution to human agents in the first year of life and theory of mind (ToM) abilities (assessed through a modified false belief task) in the second year of life. Overall, methodological problems and statistical limitations compound data interpretation, which would be equivocal despite these limitations. The authors find no support for high-order social cognitive abilities in infancy. The discussion focuses on how the field of social cognition in infancy should build theories from the bottom up, assessing how simpler precursors change over time and combine to give rise to socially competent individuals.
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