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Action anticipation through attribution of false belief by 2-year-olds (2007)
| Venue: | Psychological Science |
| Citations: | 87 - 3 self |
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@ARTICLE{Southgate07actionanticipation,
author = {V. Southgate and A. Senju and G. Csibra},
title = {Action anticipation through attribution of false belief by 2-year-olds},
journal = {Psychological Science},
year = {2007},
pages = {587--592}
}
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Abstract
Two-year-olds engage in many behaviors that ostensibly require the attribution of mental states to others. Despite this, the overwhelming consensus has been that they are unable to attribute false-beliefs at this age. In the current study, we have used an eye-tracker to record infant's looking behaviour while they watched actions on a computer monitor. Our data demonstrate that 25-month-old infants show correct anticipation of an actor’s actions that could only be predicted if they had attributed a false belief to the actor. Two-year-old children engage in a host of behaviors that ostensibly entail the attribution of mental states to others. They readily deceive and lie (Chandler, Fritz &
