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de Gracia, Ma. Regina Laya; de Rosnay, Marc; Hawes, David; Perez, Maria Veronica Templo – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
The acquisition of theory of mind (ToM) -- the ability to attribute mental states to explain others' behaviors -- is a critical milestone in children's cognitive development. Previous research has established that deaf children experience significant delays in ToM compared to hearing children within the same culture. However, prior studies were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Theory of Mind, Correlation
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Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Arnott, Bronia; Leekam, Susan R.; de Rosnay, Marc – Child Development, 2013
Relations among indices of maternal mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments) and children's: (a) internal state vocabulary and perspectival symbolic play at 26 months ("N" = 206), and (b) theory of mind (ToM) at 51 months ("n" = 161) were investigated. Appropriate comments were positively…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Play, Child Development, Mothers
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de Rosnay, Marc; Hughes, Claire – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This paper presents a selective review of the literature addressing the influence of young children's conversational environments and interactions on their psychological understanding of persons. Our dual purposes are to reveal some consensus on the current state of knowledge and to foster a programmatic approach to future research. The initial…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Linguistic Competence, Young Children, Interpersonal Competence
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de Rosnay, Marc; Pons, Francisco; Harris, Paul L.; Morrell, Julian M. B. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examines the contribution of children's linguistic ability and mothers' use of mental-state language to young children's understanding of false belief and their subsequent ability to make belief-based emotion attributions. In Experiment 1, children (N = 51) were given three belief-based emotion-attribution tasks. A standard task in…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Video Technology, Mothers, Semantics