TY - JOUR
T1 - Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: Evidence from five cultures
AU - Callaghan, Tara
AU - Rochat, Philippe
AU - Lillard, Angeline
AU - Claux, Mary Louise
AU - Odden, Hal
AU - Itakura, Shoji
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Singh, Saraswati
PY - 2005/5/1
Y1 - 2005/5/1
N2 - Over the past 20 years, developmental psychologists have shown considerable interest in the onset of a theory of mind, typically marked by children's ability to pass false-belief tasks. In Western cultures, children pass such tasks around the age of 5 years, with variations of the tasks producing small changes in the age at which they are passed. Knowing whether this age of transition is common across diverse cultures is important to understanding what causes this development. Cross-cultural studies have produced mixed findings, possibly because of varying methods used in different cultures. The present study used a single procedure to measure false-belief understanding in five cultures: Canada, India, Peru, Samoa, and Thailand. With a standardized procedure, we found synchrony in the onset of mentalistic reasoning, with children crossing the false-belief milestone at approximately 5 years of age in every culture studied. The meaning of this synchrony for the origins of mental-state understanding is discussed. Copyright © 2005 American Psychological Society.
AB - Over the past 20 years, developmental psychologists have shown considerable interest in the onset of a theory of mind, typically marked by children's ability to pass false-belief tasks. In Western cultures, children pass such tasks around the age of 5 years, with variations of the tasks producing small changes in the age at which they are passed. Knowing whether this age of transition is common across diverse cultures is important to understanding what causes this development. Cross-cultural studies have produced mixed findings, possibly because of varying methods used in different cultures. The present study used a single procedure to measure false-belief understanding in five cultures: Canada, India, Peru, Samoa, and Thailand. With a standardized procedure, we found synchrony in the onset of mentalistic reasoning, with children crossing the false-belief milestone at approximately 5 years of age in every culture studied. The meaning of this synchrony for the origins of mental-state understanding is discussed. Copyright © 2005 American Psychological Society.
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 16
SP - 378
EP - 384
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
ER -