Two Mentalizing Capacities and the Understanding of Two Types of Lie Telling in Children

Autor/inn/en	Hsu, Yik Kwan; Cheung, Him
Titel	Two Mentalizing Capacities and the Understanding of Two Types of Lie Telling in Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 49 (2013) 9, S.1650-1659 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0031128
Schlagwörter	Deception; Young Children; Beliefs; Theory of Mind; Inhibition; Correlation; Regression (Statistics); Comprehension; Cognitive Ability; Foreign Countries; Hong Kong; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Täuschung; Frühe Kindheit; Belief; Glaube; Hemmung; Korrelation; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Denkfähigkeit; Ausland; Hongkong
Abstract	This study examined the interrelationships among second-order belief, interpretive theory of mind, inhibitory control, and the understanding of strategic versus white lies in 54 children approximately 5 years 7 months old. Results showed that second-order belief was associated with strategic-lie understanding, whereas interpretive theory of mind predicted white-lie understanding. The current findings suggest that different aspects of mentalizing are involved in understanding strategic versus white lies. Strategic lies are about manipulating another mind's information content in relation to reality, and therefore to understand them, the child needs to be able to think about the mind as a representational agent holding either correct or incorrect information. This capacity is captured by traditional false-belief tasks. On the other hand, white lies are about hiding one's true feeling or opinion about reality out of a prosocial motive and are less subject to verification against external information. Hence, to understand white lies, the child needs to be able to see the mind as an interpretive agent and allow different minds to interpret even the same information differently. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01