
How do children develop an understanding of people as psychological entities - as feeling, thinking beings? How do they come to understand human behavior as driven by desires and informed by reason? These questions are at the heart of contemporary research on children's "theories...

This book provides a coherent account of the development of social understanding and self during the first 5 years of life. It incorporates material from a variety of subareas of research in early development including infant social interaction, joint