Infants' reasoning about others' false perceptions

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ID9788864
AuthorsHyun-Joo Song (0000-0002-8161-2601, Yonsei University, corresponding author), Renée Baillargeon (0000-0002-1177-9940, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Year2008
Volume44
Issue6
Pages1789-1795
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0013774
PMID18999340
PMCIDPMC3372913
OpenAlexW2124331449
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited19

Prior research suggests that children younger than age 3 or 4 do not understand that an agent may be deceived by an object’s misleading appearance. The authors asked whether 14.5-month-olds would give evidence in a violation-of-expectation task that they understand that agents may form false perceptions. Infants first watched events in which an agent faced a stuffed skunk and a doll with blue pigtails; the agent consistently reached for the doll, suggesting that she preferred it over the skunk. Next, while the agent was absent, the doll was hidden in a plain box, and the skunk was hidden in a box with a tuft of blue hair protruding from under its lid. Infants expected the agent to be misled by the tuft’s resemblance to the doll’s hair and to falsely perceive it as belonging to the doll. These and other results indicate that 14.5-month-old infants can already reason about agents’ false perceptions

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · False belief · Object (grammar · Perception · Theory of mind · Tuft · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Face Recognition and Perception · Neuroscience · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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