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Hayashi, Hajimu; Ban, Yoshimi – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined children's understanding of irony when a difference existed between a speaker's intended meaning and a listener's interpretation of the meaning. Three irony contexts were presented to 87 7/8-year-olds (second graders), 90 11/12-year-olds (sixth graders), and 103 adults. In the normal irony context, the speaker intended to…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Myers, Lauren J.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 2012
Children gradually develop interpretive theory of mind (iToM)--the understanding that different people may interpret identical events or stimuli differently. The present study tested whether more advanced iToM underlies children's recognition that map symbols' meanings must be communicated to others when symbols are iconic (resemble their…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Child Development, Children, Maps