Table of Contents

Part I.  Questions About the Phenomenon

1.            Louis J. Moses
Executive functioning and children’s theories of mind

2.            Bertram F. Malle
Three puzzles of mindreading

3.            Mark H. Davis
A “constituent” approach to the study of perspective taking:  What are its fundamental elements?

4.            Daniel D. Hutto
Starting without theory: Confronting the paradox of conceptual development

Part II.  Reading Behavior, Reading Minds

5.            Diego Fernandez-Duque and Jodie A. Baird
Is there a ‘social brain’? Lessons from eye-gaze following, joint attention, and autism

6.            Susan R. Fussell, Robert E. Kraut, Darren Gergle, and Leslie D. Setlock
Actions as evidence about state of mind in collaboration

7.            Glenn D. Reeder, David Trafimow
Attributing motives to other people

8.            Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller
Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures
in making dispositional inferences

Part III.  Reading Own Mind, Reading Other Minds

9.            Jean Decety
Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy

10.        Daniel R. Ames
Everyday solutions to the problem of other minds: Which tools are used when?

11.        Josef Perner and Anton Kühberger
Mental simulation: Royal road to other minds?

12.        Radu Bogdan
Why self-ascriptions are difficult and develop late

Part IV.  Language and Other Minds

14.        Janet W. Astington and Eva Filippova
Language as the route into other minds

15.        Marjorie Barker and T. Givón
Representation of the interlocutor’s mind during conversation

16.        Michael F. Schober
Conceptual alignment in conversation

17.        James S. Uleman
On the Inherent Ambiguity of Traits and Other Mental Concepts

Part V. Limits of Mindreading

18.        Dale J. Barr and Boaz Keysar
Mindreading in an exotic case: The normal adult human

19.        Leaf Van Boven and George Loewenstein
Empathy Gaps in Affective Perspective Taking

20.        Sara D. Hodges
Is how much you understand me in your head or mine?

21.        William Ickes, Jeffry A. Simpson, & Minda Oriña
Empathic accuracy and inaccuracy in close relationships

22.        Robyn Langdon (Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia)
Theory of mind in schizophrenia