Evidence for Goal- and Mixed Evidence for False Belief-Based Action Prediction in 2- to 4-Year-Old Children: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Anticipatory Looking Replication Study

Autor/inn/en	Kaltefleiter, Larissa J.; Schuwerk, Tobias; Wiesmann, Charlotte Grosse; Kristen-Antonow, Susanne; Jarvers, Irina; Sodian, Beate
Titel	Evidence for Goal- and Mixed Evidence for False Belief-Based Action Prediction in 2- to 4-Year-Old Children: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Anticipatory Looking Replication Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 25 (2022) 4, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kaltefleiter, Larissa J.) ORCID (Schuwerk, Tobias)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.13224
Schlagwörter	Beliefs; Preschool Children; Cognitive Processes; Thinking Skills; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Denkfähigkeit; Vorhersage
Abstract	Unsuccessful replication attempts of paradigms assessing children's implicit tracking of false beliefs have instigated the debate on whether or not children have an implicit understanding of false beliefs before the age of four. A novel multi-trial anticipatory looking false belief paradigm yielded evidence of implicit false belief reasoning in 3- to 4-year-old children using a combined score of two false belief conditions (Grosse Wiesmann, C., Friederici, A. D., Singer, T., & Steinbeis, N. [2017]. "Developmental Science," 20(5), e12445). The present study is a large-scale replication attempt of this paradigm. The task was administered three times to the same sample of N = 185 children at 2, 3, and 4 years of age. Using the original stimuli, we did not replicate the original finding of above-chance belief-congruent looking in a combined score of two false belief conditions in either of the three age groups. Interestingly, the overall pattern of results was comparable to the original study. Post-hoc analyses revealed, however, that children performed above chance in one false belief condition (FB1) and below chance in the other false belief condition (FB2), thus yielding mixed evidence of children's false belief-based action predictions. Similar to the original study, participants' performance did not change with age and was not related to children's general language skills. This study demonstrates the importance of large-scaled replications and adds to the growing number of research questioning the validity and reliability of anticipatory looking false belief paradigms as a robust measure of children's implicit tracking of beliefs. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01