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Labelling improves false belief understanding: a training study

A total of 104 children aged between 41 and 47 months were selected to study the relationship between language and false belief understanding. Participants were assigned to four different training conditions: discourse, labelling, control (all with deceptive objects), and sentential complements (involving non-deceptive objects). Post-test results showed an improvement in children"s false belief understanding in the discourse and the labelling conditions, but not in the sentential complements with non-deceptive objects or the control group. Furthermore, the most remarkable improvement in false belief understanding occurred in the labelling group. These results suggest that some types of linguistic experience promote the development of false belief understanding, provided that differing perspectives are confronted.

© The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2013, vol. 16, núm. e6, p. 1-14

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología i Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid

Author: Serrat Sellabona, Elisabet
Rostán Sánchez, Carles
Vallès Majoral, Eduard
Esteban Guitart, Moisès
Sidera Caballero, Francesc
Serrano Ortiz, Jèssica
Date: 2013
Abstract: A total of 104 children aged between 41 and 47 months were selected to study the relationship between language and false belief understanding. Participants were assigned to four different training conditions: discourse, labelling, control (all with deceptive objects), and sentential complements (involving non-deceptive objects). Post-test results showed an improvement in children"s false belief understanding in the discourse and the labelling conditions, but not in the sentential complements with non-deceptive objects or the control group. Furthermore, the most remarkable improvement in false belief understanding occurred in the labelling group. These results suggest that some types of linguistic experience promote the development of false belief understanding, provided that differing perspectives are confronted.
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ISSN: 1138-7416 (versió paper)
1988-2904 (versió electrònica)
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/9220
Language: eng
Publisher: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología i Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid
Collection: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2013.8
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Is part of: © The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2013, vol. 16, núm. e6, p. 1-14
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Subject: Filosofia de la ment
Philosophy of mind
Comprensió
Comprehension
Infants -- Llenguatge
Title: Labelling improves false belief understanding: a training study
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