Young toddlers can tell when others hold false beliefs, study finds
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Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · View the paper (DOI)
A new study by Renée Baillargeon and colleagues found that 2.5-year-old children can answer questions about people acting on false beliefs, a skill previously thought to develop until age 4. The researchers developed a modified version of the Sally-Anne test, which gave children a chance to prepare for the question and reduced processi...
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- Young toddlers can tell when others hold false beliefs, study finds University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau · Nov 28, 2016 · first to report
- Toddlers may know when you are not telling the truth, say Singapore and US experts Nanyang Technological University · Nov 29, 2016