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- Title
Conversational perspective-taking and false belief attribution: A longitudinal study.
- Authors
Bernard, Stéphane; Deleau, Michel
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to explore the developmental links between conversational perspective-taking and false belief attribution. To examine this, 81 children aged between 3 and 4 years participated in a longitudinal study over a period of 1 year, with three measurement sessions being performed at 6-month intervals. The children were assessed by means of sets of tasks involving conversational perspective-taking, false belief attribution and language. The results show that false belief attribution scores, at a given age, are predicted to a significant extent, irrespective of the sessions compared, by the variations in conversational perspective-taking scores at an earlier age, whereas the reverse is not observed. These results support the hypothesis that perspectivetaking experience contributes to the development of belief representation during the preschool period.
- Subjects
ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology) in children; SELF-perception in children; PERSPECTIVE taking; CHILD psychology; LONGITUDINAL method; DEVELOPMENTAL psychology
- Publication
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007, Vol 25, Issue 3, p443
- ISSN
0261-510X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1348/026151006X171451