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Conduct Disorder involves a constellation of behaviors including violation of the basic rights of others, aggression toward people and animals, damage to property, lying and stealing, and/or serious violation of rules. Children with conduct disorder have been shown to have significant problems in social interaction. The present paper provides a general overview of conduct disorder, while focusing on possible factors in social and emotional development that have been shown to contribute to it. Specifically, this paper suggests that deficiencies in empathy and "Theory of Mind" are significantly associated with the development of this disorder, but not causes of it.

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"A similar and related concept of empathy is "theory of mind" or "mentalizing". Happe and Frith (1996) define theory of mind as "the ability of normal individuals to attribute mental states to themselves and others in order to explain and predict behavior" (p. 386). Several researchers (e.g., Frith, Morton, & Leslie, 1991) have attempted to distinguish theory of mind from empathy by claiming that mentalizing is an implicit and unconscious rather than a conscious phenomenon."

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