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WORK IN PROGRESS:

 

Astington, J. W. & Hughes, C. Theory of mind: Self-reflection and social understanding. Chapter to be published in Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, P. D. Zelazo (Ed.)

 

Dack, L. A. & Astington, J. W. Deontic and epistemic reasoning in young children and adults: Revisiting the deontic advantage. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 

Filippova, E. & Astington, J.W. Children’s understanding of social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony. Manuscript revised and resubmitted.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Astington, J. W. (2008). More manifesto than blueprint: Katherine Nelson’s vision for the future of cognitive development research. (Essay review of “Young minds in social worlds” K. Nelson), Cognitive Development, 23, 438-444.

 

Astington, J. W. & Dack, L. A. (2008).  Theory of mind. In M. M. Haith & J. B. Benson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development, Vol. 3 (pp. 343-356).San Diego, CA: Academic Press.  

 

Filippova, E. & Astington, J.W. (2008). Further development in social reasoning revealed in discourse irony understanding. Child Development, 79, 126-138.

 

Milligan, K., Astington, J.W. & Dack, L.A. (2007).  Language and theory of mind: Metaanalysis of the relation between language ability and false-belief understanding. Child Development, 78, 622-646.

 

Astington, J. W. (2006). The developmental interdependence of theory of mind and language. In S. C. Levinson & N. J. Enfield (Eds.), The roots of human sociality: Culture, cognition, and human  interaction (pp. 179-206). Oxford, UK: Berg.

 

Astington, J. W., & Baird, J. A. (2005). Introduction: Why language matters. In J. W. Astington & J. A. Baird (Eds.), Why language matters for theory of mind (pp. 3-25). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Astington, J. W., & Baird, J. A. (2005). Representational development and false-belief understanding. In J. W. Astington & J. A. Baird (Eds.), Why language matters for theory of mind (pp.163-185). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Astington, J. W. & Pelletier, J. (2005). Theory of mind, language, and learning in the early years: Developmental origins of school readiness. In B. D. Homer & C. Tamis-Lemonda (Eds.), The development of social cognition and communication (pp. 205-230). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Astington, J. W. (2004). Bridging the gap between theory of mind and moral reasoning. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 103, 63-72.

 

Astington, J. W. & Peskin, J. (2004). Meaning and use: Children's acquisition of the mental lexicon. In J. Lucariello, J. Hudson, R. Fivush, P. Bauer (Eds.), The development of the mediated mind: Sociocultural context and cognitive development (pp. 59-78). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Astington, J. W. (2003). Sometimes necessary, never sufficient: False-belief understanding and social competence. In B. Repacholi & V. Slaughter (Eds.), Individual differences in theory of mind: Implications for typical and atypical development (pp. 13-38). New York: Psychology Press.

 

Astington, J. W. (2001). The paradox of intention: Assessing children's metarepresentational understanding. In B. F. Malle, L. J. Moses, & D. A. Baldwin (Eds.), Intentions and intentionality: Foundations of social cognition (pp. 85-103). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Astington, J. W. (2000). Language and metalanguage in children's understanding of mind. In J. W. Astington (Ed.), Minds in the making: Essays in honor of David R. Olson (pp. 267-284). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

 

Astington, J. W. (1993). The child's discovery of the mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reprinted by Fontana Press, London, 1994. Published in translation by Shinyosa Press, Japan, (N. Matsumara, trans.), 1995; Ediciones Morata, Spain, (T. del Amo, trans.), 1998; Retz, France (Y. Bonin, trans.), 1999; Reinhardt Verlag, Germany, (M. Reiss, trans.) 2000; Liaohai Publishing House (Sun Chung Ying, trans.), China, 2000; Sigma Press (S. Song, trans.), Korea, 2007