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A Cross-Cultural Study of Theory of Mind Using Strange Stories in School-Aged Children from Australia and Mainland China
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Wang, Si; Andrews, Glenda; Pendergast, Donna; Neumann, David; Chen, Yulu; Shum, David H. K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
To date, cross-cultural studies on Theory of Mind (ToM) have predominantly focused on preschoolers. This study focuses on middle childhood, comparing two samples of mainland Chinese (n = 126) and Australian (n = 83) children aged between 5.5 and 12 years. Strange Stories, the most commonly used measure of ToM, was employed. The study aimed to…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Measures (Individuals), Story Telling
Preschoolers' Compliance with Others' Violations of Fairness Norms: The Roles of Intentionality and Affective Perspective Taking
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Heck, Isobel A.; Chernyak, Nadia; Sobel, David M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
Young children are remarkably compliant with social norms, especially those governing fairness and equality. Yet children also frequently observe and face opportunities to violate those social norms, particularly in situations in which doing so is self-beneficial. In 3 studies, we investigated the conditions under which children adhere to social…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Compliance (Psychology), Ethics, Social Behavior
Assessing Children's Implicit Attitudes Using the Affect Misattribution Procedure
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Williams, Amanda; Steele, Jennifer R.; Lipman, Corey – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
In the current research, we examined whether the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) could be successfully adapted as an implicit measure of children's attitudes. We tested this possibility in 3 studies with 5- to 10-year-old children. In Study 1, we found evidence that children misattribute affect elicited by attitudinally positive (e.g., cute…
Descriptors: Animals, Gender Differences, Priming, Psychological Patterns
The Social Context of Infant Intention Understanding
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Dunphy-Lelii, Sarah; LaBounty, Jennifer; Lane, Jonathan D.; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Traditional looking-time paradigms are often used to assess infants' attention to sociocognitive phenomena, but the link between these laboratory scenarios and real-world interactions is unclear. The current study investigated hypothesized relations between traditional social-cognitive looking-time paradigms and their real-world counterparts…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Intention, Infants, Social Cognition
Hot and Cool Executive Function and Its Relation to Theory of Mind in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Kouklari, Evangelia-Chrysanthi; Thompson, Trevor; Monks, Claire P.; Tsermentseli, Stella – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
Previous research has clearly demonstrated that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves deficits in multiple neuropsychological functions, such as executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM). A conceptual distinction is commonly made between cool and hot EF. In ASD, continued attention has been paid to the cool areas of executive dysfunction.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Executive Function, Theory of Mind
Social Information Guides Infants' Selection of Foods
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Shutts, Kristin; Kinzler, Katherine D.; McKee, Caitlin B.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Two experiments investigated the influence of socially conveyed emotions and speech on infants' choices among food. After watching films in which two unfamiliar actresses each spoke while eating a different kind of food, 12-month-old infants were allowed to choose between the two foods. In Experiment 1, infants selected a food endorsed by a…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Affective Behavior, Social Influences