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Nyhout, Angela; Henke, Lena; Ganea, Patricia A. – Child Development, 2019
In two experiments, one hundred and sixty-two 6- to 8-year-olds were asked to reason counterfactually about events with different causal structures. All events involved overdetermined outcomes in which two different causal events led to the same outcome. In Experiment 1, children heard stories with either an ambiguous causal relation between…
Descriptors: Child Development, Ambiguity (Context), Attribution Theory, Children
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Harvey, Christina – Child Development, 2014
Four- to 10-year-olds' and adults' (N = 263) ability to inhibit privileged knowledge and simulate a naïve perspective were examined. Participants viewed pictures that were then occluded aside from a small ambiguous part. They offered suggestions for how a naïve person might interpret the hidden pictures, as well as rated the probability…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Inhibition, Perspective Taking