Synchrony in the onset of mental state understanding across cultures?

• Verfasst von: Mayer, Andreas Frank [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Träuble, Birgit [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Synchrony in the onset of mental state understanding across cultures?
• Titelzusatz: a study among children in Samoa
• Verf.angabe: Andreas Mayer and Birgit E. Träuble
• Jahr: 2013
• Umfang: 8 S.
• Teil: volume:37
• Teil: year:2013
• Teil: number:1
• Teil: pages:21-28
• Teil: extent:8
• Fussnoten: First Published August 3, 2012 ; Gesehen am 07.07.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: International journal of behavioral development
• Ort Quelle: London [u.a.] : Sage Publ., 1978
• Jahr Quelle: 2013
• Band/Heft Quelle: 37(2013), 1, Seite 21-28
• ISSN Quelle: 1464-0651
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0165025412454030
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Mayer, Andreas Frank, 1979 - : Synchrony in the onset of mental state understanding across cultures?. - 2013
• Sach-SW: child development
• Sach-SW: cross-cultural psychology
• Sach-SW: cultural variability
• Sach-SW: false belief task
• Sach-SW: theory of mind
• K10plus-PPN: 1762346095

Abstract

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.