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Peretti, Giulia; Manzi, Federico; Di Dio, Cinzia; Cangelosi, Angelo; Harris, Paul L.; Massaro, Davide; Marchetti, Antonella – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Including robots in children's lives calls for reflection on the psychological and moral aspects of such relationships, especially with respect to children's ability to differentiate intentional from unintentional false statements, that is, lies from mistakes. This ability calls for an understanding of an interlocutor's intentions. This study…
Descriptors: Robotics, Childrens Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking, Intention
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Tang, Yulong; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco; Zou, Hong; Zhang, Wenjuan; Xu, Qunxia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The development of emotion understanding in young Chinese preschoolers was examined. The overall developmental trend, as measured by the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC), proved similar to that found among preschoolers in Western Europe. However, Chinese children performed better at understanding the distinction between real and apparent…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Davoodi, Telli; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Children in the United States come to distinguish historical from fictional story figures between the ages of 3 and 5 years, guided by the plausibility of the story events surrounding the figure (Corriveau, Kim, Schwalen, & Harris, 2009; Woolley & Cox, 2007). However, U.S. children vary in their reactions to stories that include…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Fantasy, Religious Education
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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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Harris, Paul L.; Jalloul, Malak – American Journal of Play, 2013
In an article in the January 2013 "Psychological Review," Lillard, Lemer, Hopkins, Dore, Smith, and Palmquist set out to critique the customary claim that pretend play contributes to healthy child development. Following Peter Smith, they distinguished three possibilities for the impact of pretend play. Pretend play, they proposed, might…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Influences
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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