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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 71, Issue 4, Pages 895-912Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00198
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- PHS HHS [22149] Funding Source: Medline
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Very young children seem to know that people experience several mental states: desires, perceptions, emotions. In three studies, we investigated 2- and young 3-year-olds' judgments and communications about how these states connect together in people's lives and minds. Two experimental studies with 56 participants demonstrated young children's understanding of at least one set od connections: In appropriate circumstances, a person's perception of desirable or undesirable objects leads to related emotional experiences. A complementary investigation of four young children's everyday conversations demonstrated their awareness of and expression of several additional connections between people's desires, perceptions, and emotions.
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