Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about what others are thinking. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who is credited with founding the ...

The preoperational stage occurs between ages 2 and 7, where children engage in pretend play and symbolic thinking. During ...

[Note: Social media counts reset to zero on this post.] Twenty years ago, a pair of researchers in England reported on a series of experiments in which they showed that very young children could, in ...