Six-year-olds' contradictory judgments about knowledge and beliefs.
By around the age of 4 years, children acknowledge that people can have false beliefs about the world. Six-year-olds are still inclined, however, to confuse their own knowledge with that of more ignorant others. In a recent paper, Hulme, Mitchell and Wood offer a novel explanation for six-year-olds' tendency to make such errors when asked to choose a picture to put in a story character's thought bubble.
Robinson
Elizabeth J.
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Dept of Psychology, Keele University, ST5 5BG, Keele Staffs, UK