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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00118
Keywords
curse of knowledge; theory of mind; hindsight bias; perspective taking; social cognition
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- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [435-2013-0445]
- Canada Research Chairs Program [950228407]
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Virtually every social interaction involves reasoning about the perspectives of others, or 'theory of mind (ToM)'. Previous research suggests that it is difficult to ignore our current knowledge when reasoning about a more naive perspective (i.e., the curse of knowledge). In this Mini Review, we discuss the implications of the curse of knowledge for certain aspects of ToM. Particularly, we examine how the curse of knowledge influences key measurements of false belief reasoning. In closing, we touch on the need to develop new measurement tools to discern the mechanisms involved in the curse of knowledge and false belief reasoning, and how they develop across the lifespan.
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