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## Abstract Previous developmental studies reported bilinguals’ Theory of Mind (ToM; the ability to take on another’s perspective) develops differently than monolinguals. We conducted a scoping review to assess how researchers assess bilinguals’ ToM and whether they characterize bilinguals’ lived experiences. We analyzed 53 publications examining ToM in bilinguals, with most papers studying children (n = 42; 79%) instead of adults. We identified 96 different tasks used across these 53 papers. The most common are 46 (48%) cases of the false-belief task, a cognitive-focused task using story vignettes. Few tasks target other types of ToM, such as ToM in social settings or taking others’ emotional perspectives. Furthermore, only half of the papers reported language history (n = 28, 53%) and exposure (n = 25, 47%), limiting the inferrability of ToM and multilingual experiences. Expanding how we study ToM bilinguals will improve our understanding of the intersection of bilingualism and ToM.
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