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Progressing from an Implicit to an Explicit False Belief Understanding: A Matter of Executive Control?
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Kloo, Daniela; Kristen-Antonow, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a longitudinal study (N = 54), we investigated the developmental relation between children's implicit and explicit theory of mind and executive functions. We found that implicit false belief understanding at 18 months was correlated with explicit false belief understanding at 4 to 5 years of age, with the latter being closely related to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Beliefs, Young Children
Preschoolers' Developing Understanding of Factivity in Mental Verb Comprehension and Its Relation to First- and Second-Order False Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Study
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Kristen-Antonow, Susanne; Jarvers, Irina; Sodian, Beate – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
It has been argued that the distinction between factivity and non-factivity is more fundamental to mental state understanding than that between false beliefs and reality. The present study examined children's growing understanding of all possible contrasts between the factive verb "know" and the non-factive verbs "think" and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Verbs, Comprehension
Scientific Thinking in Elementary School: Children's Social Cognition and Their Epistemological Understanding Promote Experimentation Skills
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Do social cognition and epistemological understanding promote elementary school children's experimentation skills? To investigate this question, 402 children (ages 8, 9, and 10) in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades were assessed for their experimentation skills, social cognition (advanced theory of mind [AToM]), epistemological understanding (understanding…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Cognition, Epistemology, Science Process Skills
Declarative Joint Attention as a Foundation of Theory of Mind
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Sodian, Beate; Kristen-Antonow, Susanne – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Theories of social-cognitive development have attributed a foundational role to declarative joint attention. The present longitudinal study of 83 children, who were assessed on a battery of social-cognitive tasks at multiple measurement points from the age of 12 to 50 months, tested a predictive model of theory of mind (false-belief…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Perspective Taking
Continuity from an Implicit to an Explicit Understanding of False Belief from Infancy to Preschool Age
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Thoermer, Claudia; Sodian, Beate; Vuori, Maria; Perst, Hannah; Kristen, Susanne – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
An implicit understanding of false belief indicated by anticipatory looking has been shown to be significantly correlated with performance on explicit false-belief tasks in 3- and 4-year-old children (Low, 2010). Recent evidence from infant research indicates, however, that implicit false-belief understanding guides infants' expectations about…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Theory of Mind, Infants, Preschool Children
The Development of Internal State Language during the Third Year of Life: A Longitudinal Parent Report Study
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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Licata, Maria; Thoermer, Claudia; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Children's talk about the mind has been scarcely studied in non-English speakers. For this reason, this longitudinal study documents age-related changes in German-speaking children's internal state language. At 24, 30 and 36?months, children were administered general language tests and their internal state vocabulary levels were obtained via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers