ERIC Number: EJ1190446
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Publication Date: 2018
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Introspection Plays an Early Role in Children's Explicit Theory of Mind Development
Gonzales, Christopher R.; Fabricius, William V.; Kupfer, Anne S.
Child Development, v89 n5 p1545-1552 Sep-Oct 2018
This study assessed children's (N = 236) ability to introspect the mental states of "seeing" and "knowing" relative to their ability to attribute each state to others. Children could introspect "seeing" 10 months before they could introspect "knowing." Two- and 3-year-olds correctly reported their own "seeing" states, whereas 3- and 4-year-olds correctly reported their own "knowing" states. For each mental state, there was a 7-month difference before children could correctly attribute that state to another. These findings indicate that "knowing" is more difficult to introspect than "seeing" and that the ability to introspect each mental state emerges prior to the ability to correctly attribute them to others. Theoretical implications for self-other differences in theory-of-mind development are considered.
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