Introduction Alessandro Antonietti, Emanuela Confalonieri and Antonella Marchetti; Part I. Representation and Metarepresentations: 1. Social development and the development of social representations: two sides of the same coin? Felice Carugati and Patrizia Selleri; 2. Learning from multimedia artifacts: the role of metacognition Alessandro Antonietti and Barbara Colombo; 3. Theory of mind in typical and atypical developmental settings: some considerations from a contextual perspective Antonella Marchetti, Ilaria Castelli, Giulia Cavalli, Eleonora Di Terlizzi, Flavia Lecciso, Barbara Lucchini, Davide Massaro, Serena Petrocchi and Annalisa Valle; 4. The use of metacognitive language in story retelling: the intersection between theory of mind and story comprehension Janette Pelletier, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher and Antoinette Doyle; 5. Language access and theory of mind reasoning: evidence from deaf children in bilingual and oralist environments Marek Meristo, Kerstin W. Falkman, Erland Hjelmquist, Mariantonia Tedoldi, Luca Surian and Michael Siegal; 6. Commentary: aspects and perspectives of research into metarepresentative thought Piergiorgio Battistelli; Part II. Narratives: 7. Narrative, culture, and psychology Jerome Bruner; 8. Schooling and literacy in mind and society David R. Olson; 9. Teaching writing to undergraduate psychology students as socialization to a genre Pietro Boscolo; 10. Exploring pictorial artworks: the role of intersubjectivity Federica Savazzi, Gabriella Gilli and Simona Ruggi; 11. Does culture shape the professional self? An exploration of teachers' narratives Emanuela Confalonieri and Sarah Miragoli; 12. Commentary: exploring symbolic spaces: writing, narrative, and art Jens Brockmeier and Bruce D. Homer; Concluding remarks Alessandro Antonietti, Emanuela Confalonieri and Antonella Marchetti.