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Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 12 (2015) 22–33 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders Jo u rn al h om ep ag e: http ://ees .elsevier .co m/RASD/d efau lt.as p ‘‘I love the cute caterpillar!’’ autistic children’s production of internal state language across contexts and relations to Joint Attention and theory of mind Susanne Kristen *, Maria Vuori, Beate Sodian Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Research on internal state language in autistic children reveals an uneven pattern. While Received 20 October 2014 some studies show that high-ability autistic children are impaired across a broad range of Accepted 13 December 2014 internal state term categories (e.g., desires, emotions and cognitive terms), other research Available online 11 February 2015 shows that autistic children are more selectively impaired in their talk about cognitive states. Finally, some studies even demonstrate no impairments. The different findings Keywords: have largely been explained by context effects. However, to date, studies have yet to Internal state language compare the same children across different contexts to corroborate this interpretation. Joint attention Theory of mind Further, studies involving contexts where autistic children’s reactivity is a