A conceptual replication of an interactive false-belief task in young children

Abstract

[eng] Theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to others to predict or explain their behaviour, fully develops by the age of four when children consistently pass explicit false-belief tasks (Wellman et al., 2001). However, several implicit measures of falsebelief understanding, like looking behaviour and interactiva responses, indicate that infants show an early competence to attribute false beliefs (Baillargeon et al., 2010; Buttelmann et al., 2014; Senju et al., 2011).