Synchrony in the onset of mental state understanding across cultures?: a study among children in Samoa
The development of false belief understanding in Samoa was investigated in two studies testing more than 300 children. Children’s understanding was assessed with a change of location task. The results of study 1 suggest that Samoan children improve gradually and slowly, with no succeeding majority b...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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International journal of behavioral development
Year: 2013, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-28 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0651 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025412454030 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025412454030
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| Author Notes: | Andreas Mayer and Birgit E. Träuble |
| Summary: | The development of false belief understanding in Samoa was investigated in two studies testing more than 300 children. Children’s understanding was assessed with a change of location task. The results of study 1 suggest that Samoan children improve gradually and slowly, with no succeeding majority before 8 years of age. One third of the 10-13-year-olds still failed. Study 2 used a different translation among 55 children from 4-8 years of age and supports the former results. These findings speak for the cultural variability of theory of mind development and provide the first cross-cultural continuous survey on false belief understanding of children older than 5 years of age with a large sample in a place where mental states are no suitable object for conjecture. |
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| Item Description: | First Published August 3, 2012 Gesehen am 07.07.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1464-0651 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0165025412454030 |