My research examines social cognitive and metacognitive development from early childhood to adolescence. I have investigated developmental changes in children’s ability to infer another person’s visual perspective, knowledge, and beliefs, children's understanding of cognitive activities, such as attention, inference, comprehension, and memory and children’s explanations of interpersonal events. In addition, I have investigated children’s ability to monitor their own cognitive abilities, especially the contributions of children’s monitoring ability to the acquisition of concepts of cognitive processes. In recent research I also have investigated young children’s use of gender as a basis for making inferences about the characteristics of others. Copies of published articles may be requested by email or through Research Gate.