ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

Early Explicit False Belief Understanding May Not Depend on Complement Syntax

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Social Psychology

  • Irina Jarvers
    Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
  • Stella Grosso
    Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
  • Larissa Kaltefleiter
    Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
  • Tobias Schuwerk
    Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
  • Beate Sodian
    Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich

Abstract

False belief understanding is suggested to share a representational structure with complement syntax due the representational demands involved in separating the truth value of a belief from reality. The present findings indicate that very early explicit false belief understanding may be unrelated to the acquisition of syntactic structures.

Social Cognition

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