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Edited Book
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Children and emotion: New insights into developmental affective science. Switzerland: Karger.
2024
Kramer, H. J., Lara, K. H., Gweon, H., Zaki, J., Miramontes, M., Lagattuta K. H. (2024). This too shall pass, but when? Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences. Child Development, 95, 1299-1314.
2023
Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Miramontes, M., Wu, Y., & Lara, K.H. (2023). Children’s understanding of mind and emotion: Implications for mental health. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & Y. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health, Elsevier.
2022
Kramer, H. J., Parra, L. A., Lara, K. H., Hastings, P. D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time. Emotion, 22, 880-893.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2022). Theory of mind and moral cognition: Developmental changes in integrating mental states and moral judgments. To appear in M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (3rd edition). Psychology Press.
Ma, F., An, R., Wu, D., Luo, X., Xu, F., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Guilt promotes honesty in preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 58, 693-699.
Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Developmental changes in emotion understanding during middle childhood. In D. D. Dukes, E. Walle, & A. C. Samson, (Eds.), Oxford handbook on emotional development. Oxford University Press.
2021
Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D. A., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101408.
Kramer, H. J., Wood, T. D., Lara, K. H., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Children's and adults' beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function. Cognitive Development, 57, 1-15.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced theory of mind in middle childhood and adulthood: Inferring mental states and emotions from life history. In S. Lecce & R.T. Devine (Eds.), Theory of mind in middle childhood and adolescence: Integrating multiple perspectives (pp. 15-36). Routledge Taylor and Francis.
Lagattuta, K. H. & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced emotion understanding: Children’s and adults’ knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotional events. Emotion, 21, 1- 16.
Lara, K. H., Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children's and adults' preferences and emotions. Developmental Psychology, 57, 702-717.
2020
Bamford, C. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2020). Optimism and wishful thinking: Consistency across populations in children’s expectations for the future. Child Development, 91, 1116-1134.
The adapted digitized version of the Future Expectations Task from Bamford and Lagattuta (2020) can be found on Open Science Framework.
2019
Lara, K. H., Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J. (2019). Is there a downside to anticipating the upside? Children’s and adults’ reasoning about how prior expectations shape emotions. Child Development, 90, 1170-1184.
2018
Kennedy, K. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Social categorization. In M. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (2031- 2032). New York: Sage.
Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Affective forecasting. In M. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (71-72). New York: Sage.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Where does it come from, where does it go? The benefits of examining moral judgments across a wide age range. Human Development, 60, 350-356.
Lagattuta, K. H., Tashjian, S. M., & Kramer, H. J. (2018). Does the past shape anticipation for the future? Contributions of age and executive function to advanced theory of mind. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Special Issue on Theory of Mind across the Lifespan), 226, 122-133.
2017
Goldfarb, D., Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Tashjian, S., & Kennedy, K. (2017): When your kind cannot live here: How generic language and criminal sanctions shape social categorization. Psychological Science, 28, 1597-1609.
Hjortsvang, K., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2017). Emotional development. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology.
Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2017). “These pretzels are making me thirsty:” Older children and adults struggle with induced-state episodic foresight. Child Development, 88, 1554-1562.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2017). Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 89-101.
2016
Lagattuta, K. H. (2016). Investigating children’s beliefs about optimism and hope. In L. Bormans (Ed.), The world book of hope. Belgium: Lannoo Publishers.
Lagattuta, K. H., Elrod, N., Kramer, H. J. (2016). How do thoughts, emotions, and decisions align? A new way to examine theory of mind in middle childhood and beyond. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 116-133.
2015
Kennedy, K. K., Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Sibling composition, executive function, and children’s thinking about mental diversity in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 121-139.
Kramer, H. J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Why is happy-sad more difficult? Focal emotional information impairs inhibitory control in children and adults. Emotion, 15, 61-72.
Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Kennedy, K., Hjortsvang, K., Goldfarb, D., & Tashjian, S. (2015). Beyond Sally’s missing marble: Further development in children’s understanding of mind and emotion in middle childhood. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48, 185-217.
2014
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Linking past, present, and future: Children's ability to connect mental states and emotions across time. Child Development Perspectives, 8, 90-95.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Theory of mind. In D. C. Phillips (Ed.), Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy (810-813). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Integrated approaches to studying the development of emotion. In K. H. Lagattuta (Ed.), Children and emotion: New insights into developmental affective science (vii-ix). Switzerland: Karger.
Lagattuta, K. H., Hjortsvang, K., & Kennedy, K. K. (2014). Theory of mind and academic competence during early childhood: Emotion understanding, relationships, and learning from others. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on research in theories of mind in early childhood education (245-268). Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L, & Harvey, C. (2014). Beliefs about thought probability: Evidence for persistent errors in mindreading and links to executive control. Child Development, 85, 659-674.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Weller, D. (2014). Interrelations between theory of mind and morality: A developmental perspective. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (2nd edition, 385-407). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Weller, D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Children’s judgments about prosocial decisions and emotions: Gender of the helper and recipient matters. Child Development, 85, 2011-2028.
2013
Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2013). Not all past events are equal: Biased attention and emerging heuristics in children’s past-to-future forecasting. Child Development, 84, 2094-2111.
Weller, D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2013). Helping the in group feels better: Children’s judgments and emotion attributions in response to prosocial dilemmas. Child Development, 84, 253-268.
2012
Bamford, C.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2012). Looking on the bright side: Children's knowledge about the benefits of positive versus negative thinking. Child Development, 83, 667-682.
Lagattuta, K. H.(2012). Do you underestimate your child’s worry? The Psychologist, 25, 810-811.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L., & Bamford, C. (2012). Do you know how I feel? Parents underestimate worry and overestimate optimism compared to child self-report. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 211-232.
2011
Lagattuta, K.H., & Sayfan, L. (2011). Developmental changes in children’s understanding of future likelihood and uncertainty. Cognitive Development: Special Issue on Future Episodic Thinking, 26, 315-330.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L., & Monsour, M. (2011). A new measure for assessing executive function across a wide age range: Children and adults find happy-sad more difficult than day-night. Developmental Science, 14, 481-489.
2010
Bamford, C., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2010). A new look at children’s understanding of mind and emotion: The case of prayer. Developmental Psychology, 46, 78-92.
Lagattuta, K.H., Sayfan, L., & Blattman, A. (2010). Forgetting common ground: Six- to 7-year-olds have an overinterpretive theory of mind. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1417-1432.
Lagattuta, K. H., Nucci, L., & Bosacki, S. (2010). Bridging theory of mind and the personal domain: Children’s reasoning about resistance to parental control. Child Development, 81, 616-635.
2009
Amsterlaw, J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Meltzoff, A. (2009). Young children's beliefs about the effects of emotional and physiological states on cognitive performance. Child Development, 80, 115-133.
Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2009). Scaring the monster away: What children know about managing fears of real and imaginary creatures. Child Development, 80, 1756-1774.
2008
La Bounty, J., Wellman, H. M., Olson, S., Lagattuta, K. H., & Liu, D. (2008). Mothers' and fathers' use of internal state language. Social Development, 17, 757-775.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). Young children’s knowledge about the influence of thoughts on emotions in rule situations. Developmental Science, 11, 809-818.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). On deontic reasoning and theory of mind. Human Development, Letters to the Editor, Published online May 7, 2008. www.karger.com/journals/hde.
Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). Grownups are not afraid of scary stuff, but kids are: Young children’s and adults’ understanding of children’s, infants’, and adults’ fears. Child Development, 79, 821-835.
2007
Lagattuta, K. H. (2007). Thinking about the future because of the past: Young children’s knowledge about the causes of worry and preventative decisions. Child Development, 78, 1492-1509.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Thompson, R. A. (2007). The development of self-conscious emotions: Cognitive processes and social influences. In J.L. Tracy, R.W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research (pp. 91-113). New York: Guilford.
2004 - 2006
Thompson, R., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2006). Feeling and understanding: Early emotional development (pp. 317-338). In K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of early childhood development. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). When you shouldn’t do what you want to do: Young children’s understanding of desires, rules, and emotions. Child Development, 76, 713-733.
Tracy, J., Robins, R., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). Can children recognize pride? Emotion, 5, 251-257.
Wellman, H.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2004). Theory of mind for learning and teaching: The nature and role of explanation. Cognitive Development, 19, 479-497.
1997 - 2002
Wellman, H. M., Baron-Cohen, S., Caswell, R., Gomez, J. C., Swettenham, J., Toye, E., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2002). Using thought bubbles helps children with autism acquire an alternative to a theory of mind. Autism, 6, 343-364.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Wellman, H. M. (2002). Differences in early parent-child conversations about negative versus positive emotions: Implications for the development of psychological understanding. Developmental Psychology, 38, 564-580.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Wellman, H. M. (2001). Thinking about the past: Young children’s knowledge about links between past events, thinking, and emotion. Child Development, 72, 82-102.
Wellman, H.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2000). Developing understandings of mind. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds: Perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience, second edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Lagattuta, K. H., Wellman, H. M., & Flavell, J. H. (1997). Preschoolers’ understanding of the link between thinking and feeling: Cognitive cuing and emotional change. Child Development, 68, 1081- 1104.
Edited Book
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Children and emotion: New insights into developmental affective science. Switzerland: Karger.
2024
Kramer, H. J., Lara, K. H., Gweon, H., Zaki, J., Miramontes, M., Lagattuta K. H. (2024). This too shall pass, but when? Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences. Child Development, 95, 1299-1314.
2023
Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Miramontes, M., Wu, Y., & Lara, K.H. (2023). Children’s understanding of mind and emotion: Implications for mental health. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & Y. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health, Elsevier.
2022
Kramer, H. J., Parra, L. A., Lara, K. H., Hastings, P. D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time. Emotion, 22, 880-893.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2022). Theory of mind and moral cognition: Developmental changes in integrating mental states and moral judgments. To appear in M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (3rd edition). Psychology Press.
Ma, F., An, R., Wu, D., Luo, X., Xu, F., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Guilt promotes honesty in preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 58, 693-699.
Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Developmental changes in emotion understanding during middle childhood. In D. D. Dukes, E. Walle, & A. C. Samson, (Eds.), Oxford handbook on emotional development. Oxford University Press.
2021
Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D. A., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101408.
Kramer, H. J., Wood, T. D., Lara, K. H., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Children's and adults' beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function. Cognitive Development, 57, 1-15.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced theory of mind in middle childhood and adulthood: Inferring mental states and emotions from life history. In S. Lecce & R.T. Devine (Eds.), Theory of mind in middle childhood and adolescence: Integrating multiple perspectives (pp. 15-36). Routledge Taylor and Francis.
Lagattuta, K. H. & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced emotion understanding: Children’s and adults’ knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotional events. Emotion, 21, 1- 16.
Lara, K. H., Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children's and adults' preferences and emotions. Developmental Psychology, 57, 702-717.
2020
Bamford, C. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2020). Optimism and wishful thinking: Consistency across populations in children’s expectations for the future. Child Development, 91, 1116-1134.
The adapted digitized version of the Future Expectations Task from Bamford and Lagattuta (2020) can be found on Open Science Framework.
2019
Lara, K. H., Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J. (2019). Is there a downside to anticipating the upside? Children’s and adults’ reasoning about how prior expectations shape emotions. Child Development, 90, 1170-1184.
2018
Kennedy, K. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Social categorization. In M. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (2031- 2032). New York: Sage.
Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Affective forecasting. In M. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (71-72). New York: Sage.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Where does it come from, where does it go? The benefits of examining moral judgments across a wide age range. Human Development, 60, 350-356.
Lagattuta, K. H., Tashjian, S. M., & Kramer, H. J. (2018). Does the past shape anticipation for the future? Contributions of age and executive function to advanced theory of mind. Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Special Issue on Theory of Mind across the Lifespan), 226, 122-133.
2017
Goldfarb, D., Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Tashjian, S., & Kennedy, K. (2017): When your kind cannot live here: How generic language and criminal sanctions shape social categorization. Psychological Science, 28, 1597-1609.
Hjortsvang, K., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2017). Emotional development. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology.
Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2017). “These pretzels are making me thirsty:” Older children and adults struggle with induced-state episodic foresight. Child Development, 88, 1554-1562.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2017). Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 89-101.
2016
Lagattuta, K. H. (2016). Investigating children’s beliefs about optimism and hope. In L. Bormans (Ed.), The world book of hope. Belgium: Lannoo Publishers.
Lagattuta, K. H., Elrod, N., Kramer, H. J. (2016). How do thoughts, emotions, and decisions align? A new way to examine theory of mind in middle childhood and beyond. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 116-133.
2015
Kennedy, K. K., Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Sibling composition, executive function, and children’s thinking about mental diversity in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 121-139.
Kramer, H. J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Why is happy-sad more difficult? Focal emotional information impairs inhibitory control in children and adults. Emotion, 15, 61-72.
Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Kennedy, K., Hjortsvang, K., Goldfarb, D., & Tashjian, S. (2015). Beyond Sally’s missing marble: Further development in children’s understanding of mind and emotion in middle childhood. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48, 185-217.
2014
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Linking past, present, and future: Children's ability to connect mental states and emotions across time. Child Development Perspectives, 8, 90-95.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Theory of mind. In D. C. Phillips (Ed.), Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy (810-813). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Integrated approaches to studying the development of emotion. In K. H. Lagattuta (Ed.), Children and emotion: New insights into developmental affective science (vii-ix). Switzerland: Karger.
Lagattuta, K. H., Hjortsvang, K., & Kennedy, K. K. (2014). Theory of mind and academic competence during early childhood: Emotion understanding, relationships, and learning from others. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on research in theories of mind in early childhood education (245-268). Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishers.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L, & Harvey, C. (2014). Beliefs about thought probability: Evidence for persistent errors in mindreading and links to executive control. Child Development, 85, 659-674.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Weller, D. (2014). Interrelations between theory of mind and morality: A developmental perspective. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (2nd edition, 385-407). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Weller, D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2014). Children’s judgments about prosocial decisions and emotions: Gender of the helper and recipient matters. Child Development, 85, 2011-2028.
2013
Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2013). Not all past events are equal: Biased attention and emerging heuristics in children’s past-to-future forecasting. Child Development, 84, 2094-2111.
Weller, D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2013). Helping the in group feels better: Children’s judgments and emotion attributions in response to prosocial dilemmas. Child Development, 84, 253-268.
2012
Bamford, C.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2012). Looking on the bright side: Children's knowledge about the benefits of positive versus negative thinking. Child Development, 83, 667-682.
Lagattuta, K. H.(2012). Do you underestimate your child’s worry? The Psychologist, 25, 810-811.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L., & Bamford, C. (2012). Do you know how I feel? Parents underestimate worry and overestimate optimism compared to child self-report. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 211-232.
2011
Lagattuta, K.H., & Sayfan, L. (2011). Developmental changes in children’s understanding of future likelihood and uncertainty. Cognitive Development: Special Issue on Future Episodic Thinking, 26, 315-330.
Lagattuta, K. H., Sayfan, L., & Monsour, M. (2011). A new measure for assessing executive function across a wide age range: Children and adults find happy-sad more difficult than day-night. Developmental Science, 14, 481-489.
2010
Bamford, C., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2010). A new look at children’s understanding of mind and emotion: The case of prayer. Developmental Psychology, 46, 78-92.
Lagattuta, K.H., Sayfan, L., & Blattman, A. (2010). Forgetting common ground: Six- to 7-year-olds have an overinterpretive theory of mind. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1417-1432.
Lagattuta, K. H., Nucci, L., & Bosacki, S. (2010). Bridging theory of mind and the personal domain: Children’s reasoning about resistance to parental control. Child Development, 81, 616-635.
2009
Amsterlaw, J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Meltzoff, A. (2009). Young children's beliefs about the effects of emotional and physiological states on cognitive performance. Child Development, 80, 115-133.
Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2009). Scaring the monster away: What children know about managing fears of real and imaginary creatures. Child Development, 80, 1756-1774.
2008
La Bounty, J., Wellman, H. M., Olson, S., Lagattuta, K. H., & Liu, D. (2008). Mothers' and fathers' use of internal state language. Social Development, 17, 757-775.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). Young children’s knowledge about the influence of thoughts on emotions in rule situations. Developmental Science, 11, 809-818.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). On deontic reasoning and theory of mind. Human Development, Letters to the Editor, Published online May 7, 2008. www.karger.com/journals/hde.
Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). Grownups are not afraid of scary stuff, but kids are: Young children’s and adults’ understanding of children’s, infants’, and adults’ fears. Child Development, 79, 821-835.
2007
Lagattuta, K. H. (2007). Thinking about the future because of the past: Young children’s knowledge about the causes of worry and preventative decisions. Child Development, 78, 1492-1509.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Thompson, R. A. (2007). The development of self-conscious emotions: Cognitive processes and social influences. In J.L. Tracy, R.W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research (pp. 91-113). New York: Guilford.
2004 - 2006
Thompson, R., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2006). Feeling and understanding: Early emotional development (pp. 317-338). In K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of early childhood development. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). When you shouldn’t do what you want to do: Young children’s understanding of desires, rules, and emotions. Child Development, 76, 713-733.
Tracy, J., Robins, R., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). Can children recognize pride? Emotion, 5, 251-257.
Wellman, H.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2004). Theory of mind for learning and teaching: The nature and role of explanation. Cognitive Development, 19, 479-497.
1997 - 2002
Wellman, H. M., Baron-Cohen, S., Caswell, R., Gomez, J. C., Swettenham, J., Toye, E., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2002). Using thought bubbles helps children with autism acquire an alternative to a theory of mind. Autism, 6, 343-364.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Wellman, H. M. (2002). Differences in early parent-child conversations about negative versus positive emotions: Implications for the development of psychological understanding. Developmental Psychology, 38, 564-580.
Lagattuta, K. H., & Wellman, H. M. (2001). Thinking about the past: Young children’s knowledge about links between past events, thinking, and emotion. Child Development, 72, 82-102.
Wellman, H.M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2000). Developing understandings of mind. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds: Perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience, second edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Lagattuta, K. H., Wellman, H. M., & Flavell, J. H. (1997). Preschoolers’ understanding of the link between thinking and feeling: Cognitive cuing and emotional change. Child Development, 68, 1081- 1104.