Understanding Other Intentions: Merging Evidence on Theory of Mind across Various Research Areas
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1552
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Theory of mind (TOM) is a critical human skill. Without it, humans would not be able to communicate, form relationships or understand and predict others’ intentions. Much research in the area has focused on examining TOM development in young children and TOM impairments in clinical populations. However, renewed interest in the field has sparked a wave of research that examines TOM and related constructs (e.g., social cognition, mentalizing, social competence, common ground, perspective-taking) in a number of areas, including (a) changes in TOM in later adulthood, (b) individual differences in adult TOM, (c) the role of culture and language in TOM performance, (d) issues relating to TOM measurement validity and reliability and (e) the real-world effects of individual differences in TOM.
However, this increasing amount of research is rarely shared intra- and trans-disciplinarily, leading to disjointed findings in the field and hindering progress on TOM. Accordingly, this Special Issue aims to provide an outlet for researchers studying TOM across different psychological and related areas to share their work, and calls for papers focused on describing innovative findings across populations and/or methodological approaches, identifying issues in the state of the field and presenting research that cuts across niche areas to inform theory more broadly.
Dr. Ester Navarro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- theory of mind
- social cognition
- empathy
- social competence
- perspective-taking
- social interaction
- cooperation
- communication
- embodied cognition
- common ground
- mentalizing
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