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Surtees, Andrew D. R.; Apperly, Ian A. – Child Development, 2012
Children (aged 6-10) and adults (total N = 136) completed a novel visual perspective-taking task that allowed quantitative comparisons across age groups. All age groups found it harder to judge the other person's perspective when it differed from their own. This egocentric interference did not decrease with age, even though, overall, performance…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Perspective Taking, Children, Adults
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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