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Direct linkMelike Acar; Ozce Sivis; Vincent H. Sienkiewicz – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined children's emotion attributions and moral judgements to hypothetical procedural justice outcomes when the candidates were equal in merit but different in need. Children (7 to 11 years old, N = 88) were presented with four vignettes depicting resource-rich and resource-poor candidates losing educational materials and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Campos, R.; Martínez-Castilla, P.; Sotillo, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2017
Background: Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) show difficulties in attributing false beliefs, whereas they are better at attributing emotions. This study examines whether being asked about the emotion linked to a false belief, instead of explicitly about the belief, facilitates performance on theory of mind (ToM) tasks. Method: Thirty…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Young Children, Attribution Theory, Beliefs
Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
As children listen to a simple action-based narrative, they construct a dynamic representation of the protagonist's movements, visual perspective, and goal-directed thoughts. We examined children's representations of more complex narratives in which the protagonist will encounter an unexpected outcome upon reaching his or her goal. Three studies…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Attribution Theory
Scott, Rose M.; Baillargeon, Renee – Child Development, 2009
Recent research has shown that infants as young as 13 months can attribute false beliefs to agents, suggesting that the psychological-reasoning subsystem necessary for attributing reality-incongruent informational states (Subsystem-2, SS2) is operational in infancy. The present research asked whether 18-month-olds' false-belief reasoning extends…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes
Coll, Joan H.; Lega, Leonor – 1981
Conceptual level is a personal characteristic that describes persons on a developmental hierarchy of increasing conceptual complexity, self-responsibility, and independence. The relationship between gender and conceptual level was explored in a group of 70 male and 63 female college students. The This I Believe Test (TIB) was administered to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Cognitive Development
Ahern, Mary; Malerstein, A. J. – 1981
One component of psychotherapy is the type of psychotherapeutic atmosphere created by the therapist. The various character structures of patients require different psychotherapeutic atmospheres. Three character structures are identifiable, each distinguished by a style of social cognition which parallels a stage of cognition in the child as…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences
