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Peer reviewedHulme, Sarah; Mitchell, Peter; Wood, David – Cognition, 2003
Four experiments examined 6-year-olds' performance on intentionality stories and one false belief story. Children answered according to their own knowledge in an intentional context, even though they responded by choosing a picture to insert into a protagonist's thought bubble rather than reporting the belief verbally. Children could correctly…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development, Intention
Peer reviewedKoenig, Melissa A.; Echols, Catharine H. – Cognition, 2003
Four studies examined whether 16-month-olds' responses to true/false utterances interacted with their knowledge of human agents. Findings suggested that infants are developing a critical conception of human speakers as truthful communicators and that infants understand that human speakers may provide uniquely useful information when a word fails…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Early Experience, Infant Behavior
