Highlight publications
Devine, RT & Apperly, I 2021, 'Willing and able? Theory of mind, social motivation and social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence', Developmental Science, vol. 25, no. 1, e13137. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13137
Qureshi, AW, Monk, RL, Samson, D & Apperly, IA 2020, 'Does interference between self and other perspectives in theory of mind tasks reflect a common underlying process? Evidence from individual differences in theory of mind and inhibitory control', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 178-190. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01656-z
Ellis, K, Moss, J, Stefanidou, C, Oliver, C & Apperly, I 2021, 'The development of early social cognitive skills in neurogenetic syndromes associated with autism: Cornelia de Lange, fragile X and Rubinstein-Taybi syndromes', Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, vol. 16, no. 1, 488. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-021-02117-4
Apperly, I & Butterfill, SA 2009, 'Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?', Psychological Review, vol. 116, no. 4, pp. 953-70. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016923
Apperly, I 2010, Mindreaders:the cognitive basis of "theory of mind". Taylor & Francis.
Recent publications
Article
Agostini, V, Apperly, I & Krott, A 2025, 'Greater sensitivity to communication partners’ perspectives in children learning a second language at school', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000069
Baber, C, Kandola, P, Apperly, I & McCormick, E 2025, 'Human-centred explanations for artificial intelligence systems', Ergonomics, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 391-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2024.2334427
van der Kleij, SW, Devine, R, Shapiro, LR, Ricketts, J & Apperly, I 2025, 'Longitudinal development of theory of mind in adolescence and its associations with fiction reading experience', Developmental Psychology.
Apperly, IA, Lee, R, van der Kleij, SW & Devine, RT 2024, 'A transdiagnostic approach to neurodiversity in a representative population sample: The N+ 4 model', JCPP Advances, vol. 4, no. 2, e12219. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12219
Agostini, V, Apperly, I & Krott, A 2024, 'Bilingual education enhances creative fluency and flexibility over the first year of primary school', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000579
Quesque, F, Apperly, I, Baillargeon, R, Baron-Cohen, S, Becchio, C, Bekkering, H, Bernstein, D, Bertoux, M, Bird, G, Bukowski, H, Burgmer, P, Carruthers, P, Catmur, C, Dziobek, I, Epley, N, Erle, TM, Frith, C, Frith, U, Galang, CM, Gallese, V, Grynberg, D, Happé, F, Hirai, M, Hodges, SD, Kanske, P, Kret, M, Lamm, C, Nandrino, JL, Obhi, S, Olderbak, S, Perner, J, Rossetti, Y, Schneider, D, Schurz, M, Schuwerk, T, Sebanz, N, Shamay-Tsoory, S, Silani, G, Spaulding, S, Todd, AR, Westra, E, Zahavi, D & Brass, M 2024, 'Defining key concepts for mental state attribution', Communications Psychology, vol. 2, no. 1, 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6
Wang, J, Zhao, L, Alegado, J, Webb, J, Wright, J & Apperly, I 2024, 'Express: Remembering visual and linguistic common ground in shared history', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241256651
Yeung, K, Apperly, I & Devine, RT 2024, 'Measures of individual differences in adult theory of mind: A systematic review', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 157, 105481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105481
Pomareda, C, Devine, RT & Apperly, IA 2024, 'Mindreading quality versus quantity: A theoretically and empirically motivated two-factor structure for individual differences in adults’ mindreading', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 6, e0305270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305270
Wilson, R, Hruby, A, Perez-Zapata, D, van der Kleij, SW & Apperly, IA 2023, 'Is recursive "mindreading" really an exception to limitations on recursive thinking?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001322
Markiewicz, R, Rahman, F, Apperly, I, Mazaheri, A & Segaert, K 2023, 'It is not all about you: Communicative cooperation is determined by your partner's theory of mind abilities as well as your own', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001268
Abu-Akel, A, Wood, SJ, Upthegrove, R, Chisholm, K, Lin, A, Hansen, PC, Gillespie, SM, Apperly, IA & Montag, C 2022, 'Psychosocial functioning in the balance between autism and psychosis: evidence from three populations', Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 2976-2984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01543-5
Comment/debate
Samuel, S, Erle, TM, Kirsch, LP, Surtees, A, Apperly, I, Bukowski, H, Auvray, M, Catmur, C, Kessler, K & Quesque, F 2024, 'Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking', Cognition, vol. 247, 105787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105787
Conference contribution
Wang, Y, Dsouza, R, Lee, R, Apperly, I, Devine, RT, van der Kleij, S & Lee, M 2025, Automatic Scoring of an Open-Response Measure of Advanced Mind-Reading Using Large Language Models. in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, The Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 3/05/25.
Preprint
Perez-Zapata, DI & Apperly, I 2022 'An International Study of Pure Coordination Games: Adaptable Solutions When Intuitions Are Presumed to Vary' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8fqwn
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