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- Title
Understanding False Beliefs, Hidden Emotions, and Social Interactions among Five- and Six-Year Olds.
- Authors
Mizokawa, Ai
- Abstract
This study investigated correlations between understanding of mental states and the social interactions of 5- and 6-year old children. Participants (N=102, 46 boys and 56 girls) took false belief tasks and hidden emotion tasks to assess their understanding of mental states. Teachers rated children's social interactions in terms of sympathetic behavior and peer relationships. The results indicated that, controlling for age, gender, and vocabulary scores, understanding of false beliefs was significantly associated with sympathetic behavior and peer acceptance. In addition, children with both low ability to understand false beliefs and high ability to understand hidden emotions rarely showed sympathetic behavior, and they were likely to have difficulty in forming high quality peer relationships. These findings are discussed in terms of the integration of understanding false beliefs and hidden emotions as a factor contributing to the development of social interactions.
- Subjects
SOCIAL interaction in children; BELIEF &; doubt; PHILOSOPHY of emotions; HUMAN research subjects; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology / Hattatsu Shinrigaku Kenkyū, 2011, Vol 22, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0915-9029
- Publication type
Article