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Symons, Douglas K. – Developmental Review, 2004
This paper examines the social origins of self-other understanding in young children. The proposition is that mental state discourse is related to the development of social understanding, and evidence for this proposal comes from cross-sectional, longitudinal, and training studies that relate discourse about mental states in a variety of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Social Development, Social Theories, Interpersonal Competence