Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Introduction individual differences in theory of mind : what are we investigating? / Virginia Slaughter & Betty Repacholi -- 2. Sometimes necessary, never sufficient : false-belief understanding and social competence / Janet Wilde Astington -- 3. Bypassing empathy : a Machiavellian theory of mind and sneaky power / Doris McIlwain -- 4. Theory of mind, Machiavellianism, and social functioning in childhood / Betty Repacholi ... [et al.] -- 5. ToM goes to school : social cognition and social values in bullying / Jon Sutton -- 6. Individual differences in theory of mind : the preschool years and beyond / Thomas Keenan -- 7. Did Cain fail to represent the thoughts of Abel before he killed him? : the relationship between theory of mind and aggression / Robert James, Richard Blair -- 8. The social face of theory of mind : the development of concepts of emotion, desire, visual perspective, and false belief in deaf and hearing children / Candida C. Peterson -- 9. Exploring the relationship between theory of mind and social- communicative functioning in children with autism / Helen Tager-Flusberg -- 10. Mind reading and social functioning in children with autistic disorder and asperger's disorder / Cheryl Dissanayake & Kathleen Macintosh -- 11. Theory of mind and social dysfunction : psychotic solipsism versus autistic asociality / Robyn Langdon -- 12. Theory of mind in autism and schizophrenia : a case of overoptimistic reverse engineering / Philip Gerrans & Victoria McGeer -- 13. Synthesis : psychological understanding and social skills / Martin Davies & Tony Stone.

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