Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 94-103Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.11.009
Keywords
Theory of mind; Unexpected-identity task; Appearance reality; Infants; Deceptive objects; Helping
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Based on recent findings of implicit studies, researchers have claimed that even infants can understand others' false beliefs. However, it is unclear whether infants are able to understand others' belief about an object's identity when this object can be represented in different ways. In a novel interactive unexpected-identity task derived from the appearance-reality paradigm, 18-month-olds helped an adult to achieve her goal based on the adult's belief about an object's identity. To do so, they needed to understand how this adult represented this object-according to its appearance or its real identity-and to generalize these representations to a category of objects. The results suggest that infants' false-belief understanding is as sophisticated as that of preschool children. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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