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MENTAL STATE UNDERSTANDING: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT EDITED BY : Daniela Bulgarelli, Anne Henning and Paola Molina PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2017 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering All content included on this site, approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of or is opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and licensed to Frontiers Media SA permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to (“Frontiers”) or its licensees and/or subcontractors. 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Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers ISSN 1664-8714 Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial ISBN 978-2-88945-268-2 DOI 10.3389/978-2-88945-268-2 Office:[email protected] Frontiers in Psychology 1 September 2017 | Mental State Understanding MENTAL STATE UNDERSTANDING: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT Topic Editors: Daniela Bulgarelli, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Anne Henning, SRH Hochschule für Gesundheit Gera, Germany Paola Molina, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy The current book addresses the development of mental state understanding in children with typical and atypical population, and reports new suggestions about the way to evaluate it and to support it through training. The presented frame is multifaceted. In respect to typical populations, the role of maternal reflective functioning, language, communication, and educational contexts has been deepened; and the association with internalizing/externalizing behaviors, performances in spatial tasks and pragmatics has been addressed as well. As to atypical populations, deficits in mental states understanding are reported for children with different developmental disorders or impairments, as the agenesis of the corpus callosum, Down Syndrome, preterm birth, Autism Spectrum Disorder, hearing impairment and personality difficulties such as anxiety. Overall, the papers collected in our book allow a better understanding of the mechanisms influencing mental state understanding and the effects of mental state comprehension on development. Citation: Bulgarelli, D., Henning, A., Molina, P., eds. (2017). Mental State Understanding: Individual Differences in Typical and Atypical Development. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-268-2 Frontiers in Psychology 2 September 2017 | Mental State Understanding Table of Contents 05 Editorial: Mental State Understanding: Individual Differences in Typical and Atypical Development Daniela Bulgarelli, Anne Henning and Paola Molina Section 1: Typical development Section 1.1: Theoretical models 08 Non-linearities in Theory-of-Mind Development Els M. A. Blijd-Hoogewys and Paul L. C. van Geert Section 1.2: Factors influencing Mental State Understanding 23 Intergenerational Transmission of Reflective Functioning Anna M. Rosso and Cinzia Airaldi 34 Social Cognition in Preschoolers: Effects of Early Experience and Individual Differences Daniela Bulgarelli and Paola Molina Section 1.3: Mental State Understanding and development 45 Beyond Conceptual Knowledge: The Impact of Children’s Theory-of-Mind on Dyadic Spatial Tasks Karine M. P. Viana, Imac M. Zambrana, Evalill B. Karevold and Francisco Pons 56 Peer Interaction Does Not Always Improve Children’s Mental State Talk Production in Oral Narratives. A Study in 6- to 10-Year-Old Italian Children Giuliana Pinto, Christian Tarchi and Lucia Bigozzi 69 The Relationship between Emotion Comprehension and Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior in 7- to 10-Year-Old Children Ariane Göbel, Anne Henning, Corina Möller and Gisa Aschersleben 80 Sincere, Deceitful, and Ironic Communicative Acts and the Role of the Theory of Mind in Childhood Francesca M. Bosco and Ilaria Gabbatore Section 2: Atypical development Section 2.1: Mental State Understanding in children with Hearing Impairment or Speech and Communication disorders 92 Facial Expression Recognition in Children with Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids Yifang Wang, Yanjie Su and Song Yan Frontiers in Psychology 3 September 2017 | Mental State Understanding 98 Theory of Mind and Reading Comprehension in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Signing Children Emil Holmer, Mikael Heimann and Mary Rudner 109 Theory of Mind Deficits and Social Emotional Functioning in Preschoolers with Specific Language Impairment Constance Vissers and Sophieke Koolen Section 2.2: Mental State Understanding and personality 116 Putting Ostracism into Perspective: Young Children Tell More Mentalistic Stories after Exclusion, But Not When Anxious Lars O. White, Annette M. Klein, Kai von Klitzing, Alice Graneist, Yvonne Otto, Jonathan Hill, Harriet Over, Peter Fonagy and Michael J. Crowley Section 2.3: Mental State Understanding in congenital and perinatal originated disabilities 131 Social Cognition in Children Born Preterm: A Perspective on Future Research Directions Norbert Zmyj, Sarah Witt, Almut Weitkämper, Helmut Neumann and Thomas Lücke 138 The Role of Executive Functions in Social Cognition among Children with Down Syndrome: Relationship Patterns Anna Amadó, Elisabet Serrat and Eduard Vallès-Majoral, 150 Mental State Understanding in Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Beatrix Lábadi and Anna M. Beke Section 2.4: Mental State Understanding in Autism Spectrum Disorder 162 Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder Francesco Margoni and Luca Surian 167 Corrigendum: Mental State Understanding and Moral Judgment in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder Francesco Margoni and Luca Surian 168 Implicit Mentalizing Persists beyond Early Childhood and Is Profoundly Impaired in Children with Autism Spectrum Condition Tobias Schuwerk, Irina Jarvers, Maria Vuori and Beate Sodian Section 3: Perspectives on intervention 177 Promoting Mentalizing in Pupils by Acting on Teachers: Preliminary