The DOI matches its Crossref record; 61 of the 61 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Stepping Stones to Others’ Minds: Maternal Talk Relates to Child Mental State Language and Emotion Understanding at 15, 24, and 33 Months
Abstract
This continuation of a previous study (Taumoepeau & Ruffman, 2006) examined the longitudinal relation between maternal mental state talk to 15- and 24-month-olds and their later mental state language and emotion understanding (N= 74). The previous study found that maternal talk about the child’s desires to 15-month-old children uniquely predicted children’s mental state language and emotion task performance at 24 months. In the present study, at 24 months of age, mothers’ reference to others’ thoughts and knowledge was the most consistent predictor of children’s later mental state language at 33 months. Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development provides a framework within which maternal talk, first, about the child’s desires and then about others’ thoughts and knowledge scaffolds children’s social understanding.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
(1978) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 53,488
Wimmer, H. (1983) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(83)90004-5 · Cited by 6,305
Ekman, P. (1976) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 4,345
A revised version of the Psychoticism scale
Eysenck, S. B. G., Eysenck, H. J., & Barrett, P. (1985) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/0191-8869(85)90026-1 · Cited by 3,094
Understanding the Representational Mind
Perner, J. (1993) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/6988.001.0001 · Cited by 2,430
Wellman, H. M., Carey, S., Gleitman, L., Newport, E. L., & Spelke, E. S. (1990) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/1811.001.0001 · Cited by 2,419
Understanding the intentions of others: Re-enactment of intended acts by 18-month-old children.
Meltzoff, A. N. (1995) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037//0012-1649.31.5.838 · Cited by 2,110
(1989) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.26-5332 · Cited by 1,750
Gopnik, A., & Astington, J. W. (1988) · Child Development · doi:10.2307/1130386 · Cited by 1,167
Alison Gopnik, C., & Astington, J. W. (1988) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1988.tb03192.x · Cited by 1,117
Cited by
Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development
Zimmerman, F. J., Gilkerson, J., Richards, J. A., Christakis, D. A., Xu, D., Gray, S., & Yapanel, U. (2009) · Pediatrics · doi:10.1542/peds.2008-2267 · Cited by 476
Ensink, K., Normandin, L., Target, M., Fonagy, P., Sabourin, S., & Berthelot, N. (2015) · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjdp.12074 · Cited by 238
Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition
Heyes, C., Bang, D., Shea, N., Frith, C. D., & Fleming, S. M. (2020) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.02.007 · Cited by 232
Bio-behavioral synchrony promotes the development of conceptualized emotions
Atzil, S., & Gendron, M. (2017) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.009 · Cited by 120
Murray, L., De Pascalis, L., Tomlinson, M., Vally, Z., Dadomo, H., MacLachlan, B., Woodward, C., & Cooper, P. J. (2016) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/jcpp.12605 · Cited by 101
Metadata
- Authors
- Taumoepeau, M., & Ruffman, T.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-03-01
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 284-302
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2123574095
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 61
- FWCI
- 27.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Stepping Stones to Others’ Minds: Maternal Talk Relates to Child Mental State Language and Emotion Understanding at 15, 24, and 33 Months. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01126.x
- The paper
- Taumoepeau, M., & Ruffman, T. (2008). Stepping Stones to Others’ Minds: Maternal Talk Relates to Child Mental State Language and Emotion Understanding at 15, 24, and 33 Months. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01126.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
