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Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
As children listen to a simple action-based narrative, they construct a dynamic representation of the protagonist's movements, visual perspective, and goal-directed thoughts. We examined children's representations of more complex narratives in which the protagonist will encounter an unexpected outcome upon reaching his or her goal. Three studies…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Attribution Theory
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de Rosnay, Marc; Pons, Francisco; Harris, Paul L.; Morrell, Julian M. B. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examines the contribution of children's linguistic ability and mothers' use of mental-state language to young children's understanding of false belief and their subsequent ability to make belief-based emotion attributions. In Experiment 1, children (N = 51) were given three belief-based emotion-attribution tasks. A standard task in…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Video Technology, Mothers, Semantics