Book Review: From Desire-Psychology to Belief-Desire Psychology. A Case of Theory Change?

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Repacholi, B. , & Gopnik, A. (1997). Early reasoning about desires. Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds . Developmental Psychology, 33, 12-21 .

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Spelke, E.S. , Phillips, A. , & Woodward, A.L. (1995). Infants’ knowledge of object motion and human action. In D. Sperber , D. Premack , & A.J. Premack (Eds.), Causal cognition-a multidisciplinary debate (pp.44-78). Oxford: Clarendon Press .

Wimmer, H. , & Hartl, M. (1991). Against the Cartesian view on mind: Young children’s difficulty with own false beliefs . British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 125-138 .

Wimmer, H. , & Perner, J (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children’s understanding of deception . Cognition, 13, 103-128 .