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Peer reviewedPerner, Josef; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Two experiments investigated the relationship between family size and "theory of mind." Results from an experiment with three- and four-year olds showed that children from larger families were better able than children from smaller families to predict a story character's mistaken (false-belief based) action. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development
