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ERIC Number: EJ1311121
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Aug
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Hindsight Bias and False-Belief Reasoning from Preschool to Old Age
Bernstein, Daniel M.
Developmental Psychology, v57 n8 p1387-1402 Aug 2021
Participants ranging in age from 3 to 98 years (N = 708; approximately 60% female; 49% Caucasian, 38% Asian; 12% Other ethnicities, 1% Indigenous; modal household income > $80,000) completed a battery of tasks involving verbal ability, executive function, and perspective-taking. Wherever possible, all participants completed the same version of a task. The current study tested hindsight bias and false-belief reasoning to determine how these constructs relate to each other across the child-to-adult life span. Participants of all ages showed robust hindsight bias and false-belief reasoning errors. Hindsight bias followed a U-shaped function, wherein preschoolers and older adults showed more hindsight bias than older children and younger adults. False-belief reasoning, conversely, was relatively constant from preschool to older adulthood. Hindsight bias did not correlate with false-belief reasoning. We conclude that hindsight bias and false-belief reasoning errors are robust but unrelated cognitive biases across the life span.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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