Event saliency as a constraint upon young children’s developing theories of mind

This dissertation explores the previously underrecognized possibility that especially salient perceptual events might act to interfere with young children’s abilities to grasp the possibility of false beliefs and consequently to hold to a so-called “theory of mind”. With the aim of determining wh...

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Main Author: Fritz, Anna Sabine
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3197