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Slaughter, Virginia; Peterson, Candida C.; Moore, Chris – Developmental Psychology, 2013
We investigated links between persuasive behavior and theory of mind (ToM) understanding using a novel naturalistic peer persuasion task in which children were invited to convince an interactive puppet to eat raw broccoli or brush his teeth. Sixty-three 3- to 8-year-olds (M age = 6 years, 6 months) took part in the persuasion task and were also…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Persuasive Discourse, Theory of Mind, Young Children
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De Rosnay, Marc; Fink, Elian; Begeer, Sander; Slaughter, Virginia; Peterson, Candida – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Links between young children's everyday use of mindful conversational skills and their success on laboratory tests of theory of mind understanding (ToM) were evaluated. Using published scales, teachers rated the conversational behavior and shyness of 129 children aged 60 to 101 months (M = 78ยท8 months) who were in their first years of primary…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Shyness, Language Skills, Personality