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. 2019 Feb 20;15:557–573. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S158996

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The exponential increase in number of published articles on theory of mind since its inception.

Notes: Asterisk (*) refers to the first appearance of the term “theory of mind”, coined by Premack and Woodruff in 1978.¹ In total, a PubMed search returned 1,454 studies containing the term “theory of mind” in the title as on November 23, 2018. PubMed search was limited to empirical studies and review papers, published in English, on and after 1978.