Three- and 5-year-old children know their current belief might be wrong.
J Exp Child Psychol
; 246: 106001, 2024 Oct.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-39032186
ABSTRACT
By 4 or 5 years of age, children understand when their own past beliefs were incorrect, or when others' current beliefs are incorrect. In the current study, we asked whether young children understand when their own current belief might be incorrect. 3- and 5-year old children (N = 77) made a judgment and then experienced a puppet making a judgment about the same situation. Children of both ages rechecked their evidence more often when the puppet disagreed with them than when it agreed with them (and the nature of their rechecking was different in the two conditions as well). These results suggest that already by 3 years of age children understand that they might currently be wrong, and they know that rechecking the evidence can resolve their uncertainty.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Judgment
Limits:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Exp Child Psychol
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J. exp. child psychol
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Journal of experimental child psychology
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States