The relation between desire and false belief in children's theory of mind
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9788751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margalit Ziv (0000-0003-4034-7765, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author), Douglas Frye (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 859-876 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.39.5.859 |
| PMID | 12952399 |
| OpenAlex | W2048249749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 44 |
Belief and desire are commonly assumed to be the core mental states needed to understand others' behavior. Few studies, however, have investigated both. The current studies assessed whether young children's difficulty with false belief can be explained by desire's dominance over belief, as J. A. Fodor's (1992) nativist theory and the theory theory (K. Bartsch & H. M. Wellman, 1995) claim, and examined the processes underlying children's understanding of desire. Desire inferences of 3- to 5-year-olds were compared with false-belief responses in 4 experiments. For the 3-year-olds, no correspondence was found between desire and belief, suggesting that desire cannot explain young children's difficulty with false belief and that desire relies on different cues than does belief. The findings indicate that studying children's understanding of desire is important for forming an accurate description of theory of mind and for evaluating the different theories of its development
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Dominance (genetics · False belief · Relation (database · Theory of mind · Child and Animal Learning Development · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Intentionality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |