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Lane, Jonathan D.; Wellman, Henry M.; Evans, E. Margaret – Child Development, 2012
Three- to 5-year-old (N = 61) religiously schooled preschoolers received theory-of-mind (ToM) tasks about the mental states of ordinary humans and agents with exceptional perceptual or mental capacities. Consistent with an anthropomorphism hypothesis, children beginning to appreciate limitations of human minds (e.g., ignorance) attributed those…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Development, Sociocultural Patterns, Child Development