Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ678200
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
The Influence of Language and Socioeconomic Status on Children's Understanding of False Belief.
Shatz, Marilyn; Diesendruck, Gil; Martinez-Beck, Ivelisse; Akar, Didar
Developmental Psychology, v39 n4 p717-29 Jul 2003
Two studies examined whether differences in the lexical explicitness with which languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish) express false belief and preschoolers' socioeconomic status (SES) influenced children's performance on standard false belief tasks. Found that lexical explicitness influenced responses on the "think" false belief question, but not the "look for" question. Children with higher SES performed better than children with low SES regardless of how false belief question was asked. (Author/KB)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Explicitness; False Beliefs; Research Replication; Theory of Mind


