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Scaling of Advanced Theory-of-Mind Tasks
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Child Development, 2016
Advanced theory-of-mind (AToM) development was investigated in three separate studies involving 82, 466, and 402 elementary school children (8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds). Rasch and factor analyses assessed whether common conceptual development underlies higher-order false-belief understanding, social understanding, emotion recognition, and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inhibition, Language Acquisition, Prediction
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
Concurrent Relations between Perspective-Taking Skills, Desire Understanding, and Internal-State Vocabulary
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Chiarella, Sabrina S.; Kristen, Susanne; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Sodian, Beate – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Recent studies suggest that there appears to be a similar developmental sequence in the understanding of mental states in both internal-state language and in standard theory-of-mind tasks. These findings suggest possible developmental relations between children's ability to talk and think about the mind. Two experiments investigated the concurrent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Perspective Taking, Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Processes