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The purpose of the study is to investigate relationships between attitudes and theory of mind. Theory of mind means theoretical area to understand mental states, such as feelings or desires of people for predicting their behaviors. When we understand theory of mind of language learners, we can predict and explain their language learning actions and achievements. Similarly, attitudes indicate individuals’ beliefs and emontion to all attitudinal people and objects. Based on the attitudes toward the objects, we evaluate them positively or negatively. A person predicts and evaluates objects or human behaviors through theory of mind, so that he or she produces positive or negative attitudes toward them. Attitudes that represent mental states toward all attitude persons, groups, objects, etc, form and change through various processes: the tripartite model, implicit and explicit processes, and social interaction. Therefore, theory of mind can strongly influence all of these processes for attitude formation and change. Also, the relationship between attitude and theory of mind can be applied to the fields of language learning, and motivations have close connections with attitudes.