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"I Won't Trust You if I Think You're Trying to Deceive Me": Relations between Selective Trust, Theory of Mind, and Imitation in Early Childhood
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DiYanni, Cara; Nini, Deniela; Rheel, Whitney; Livelli, Alicia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
This study explores connections between 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' performance in theory-of-mind tasks, their performance on an assessment of selective trust, and their decisions to (not) imitate the questionable tool choices of an adult model. The prediction was that all the tasks would be related, with improvements in theory of mind and selective…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Trust (Psychology), Imitation