ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
The ‘True Belief Error’ in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children
- Michael Huemer
University of Salzburg - Michael Huemer
University of Salzburg - Sara Gruber
University of Salzburg - Anna Mangstl
University of Salzburg - Josef Perner
University of Salzburg - Josef Perner
University of Salzburg
Abstract
Recent evidence shows that children once they pass false belief tasks around age 4 start to fail true belief tasks. We replicated this error and demonstrate that it vanishes when one ensures that the protagonist does have the relevant knowledge.
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