Is social cognition reducible to theory of mind?

In an article entitled “Social cognition is not reducible to theory of mind when children use deontic rules to predict the behaviour of others” (coming out in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011, available here), Fabrice Clément, Stéphane Bernard and Laurence Kaufmann argue that “children have a capacity for deontic reasoning that is irreducible to mentalizing” and present two experiments the results of which “point to the existence of such non-mentalistic understanding and prediction of the behaviour of others.”

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