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Todd, Andrew R.; Cameron, C. Daryl; Simpson, Austin J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Does tracking another agent's visual perspective depend on having a goal--albeit a remote one--to do so? In 5 experiments using indirect measures of visual perspective taking with a cartoon avatar, we examined whether and how adult perceivers' processing goals shape the incidental tracking of "what" objects the avatar sees (Level-1…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Perspective Taking, Adults, Goal Orientation
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Hayashi, Hajimu; Shiomi, Yuki – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This study examined whether children understand that people selectively conceal or express emotion depending upon the context. We prepared two contexts for a verbal display task for 70 first-graders, 80 third-graders, 64 fifth-graders, and 71 adults. In both contexts, protagonists had negative feelings because of the behavior of the other…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
Clara Pracana Ed.; Michael Wang Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 24 of April…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Dungan, James; Saxe, Rebecca – Cognitive Science, 2012
Language has been shown to play a key role in the development of a child's theory of mind, but its role in adult belief reasoning remains unclear. One recent study used verbal and nonverbal interference during a false-belief task to show that accurate belief reasoning in adults necessarily requires language (Newton & de Villiers, 2007). The…
Descriptors: Adults, Theory of Mind, Interference (Learning), Verbal Communication
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Surtees, Andrew D. R.; Butterfill, Stephen A.; Apperly, Ian A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Studies with infants show divergence between performance on theory of mind tasks depending on whether "direct" or "indirect" measures are used. It has been suggested that direct measures assess a flexible but cognitively demanding ability to reason about the minds of others, whereas indirect measures assess distinct processes…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Development, Perspective Taking
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Flavell, John H.; Flavell, Eleanor R. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
Five-year-olds, 5 1/2-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults were tested for the presence of two intuitions about thinking hypothesized to be part of the adult theory of mind (a) when engaged in a mentally demanding activity, a person's thinking will be directed toward that activity, and (b) when the activity is not mentally demanding, the person's…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, College Students, Theory of Mind