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Scaling of Advanced Theory-of-Mind Tasks
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Child Development, 2016
Advanced theory-of-mind (AToM) development was investigated in three separate studies involving 82, 466, and 402 elementary school children (8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds). Rasch and factor analyses assessed whether common conceptual development underlies higher-order false-belief understanding, social understanding, emotion recognition, and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inhibition, Language Acquisition, Prediction
Declarative Joint Attention as a Foundation of Theory of Mind
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Sodian, Beate; Kristen-Antonow, Susanne – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Theories of social-cognitive development have attributed a foundational role to declarative joint attention. The present longitudinal study of 83 children, who were assessed on a battery of social-cognitive tasks at multiple measurement points from the age of 12 to 50 months, tested a predictive model of theory of mind (false-belief…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Perspective Taking
Social Understanding and Self-Regulation Predict Pre-Schoolers' Sharing with Friends and Disliked Peers: A Longitudinal Study
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Paulus, Markus; Licata, Maria; Kristen, Susanne; Thoermer, Claudia; Woodward, Amanda; Sodian, Beate – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This study examined longitudinal relations between early measures of prosocial action in infancy as well as cognitive and social-cognitive abilities, and the sharing behaviour of preschool children. The results reveal relations between delay-of-gratification at 24 months and inhibitory control at 30 months, and children's sharing at 5 years.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Longitudinal Studies, Prediction, Prosocial Behavior
Concurrent Relations between Perspective-Taking Skills, Desire Understanding, and Internal-State Vocabulary
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Chiarella, Sabrina S.; Kristen, Susanne; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Sodian, Beate – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Recent studies suggest that there appears to be a similar developmental sequence in the understanding of mental states in both internal-state language and in standard theory-of-mind tasks. These findings suggest possible developmental relations between children's ability to talk and think about the mind. Two experiments investigated the concurrent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Perspective Taking, Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Processes
Now I See It but You Don't: 14-Month-Olds Can Represent Another Person's Visual Perspective
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Sodian, Beate; Thoermer, Claudia; Metz, Ulrike – Developmental Science, 2007
Twelve- and 14-month-old infants' ability to represent another person's visual perspective (Level-1 visual perspective taking) was studied in a looking-time paradigm. Fourteen-month-olds looked longer at a person reaching for and grasping a new object when the old goal-object was visible than when it was invisible to the person (but visible to the…
Descriptors: Vision, Perspective Taking, Infants, Visual Stimuli
Children's Understanding of Inference As a Source of Knowledge.
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Sodian, Beate; Wimmer, Heinz – Child Development, 1987
Four experiments studied 4- to 6-year-old children's understanding of inferential reasoning as a source of knowledge. To assess understanding that knowledge of relevant premises leads to knowledge of the conclusion, children had to judge the knowledge of another person, who was presented to the child as being aware of two premises. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Inferences, Metacognition