From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate   theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children

doi:10.1177/0165025414562484

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	From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children
	Liu, Yanchun ; Wang, Yijie ; Luo, Rufan ; Su, Yanjie
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
	2016
关键词	behavior clarification Chinese children theory of mind mental state talk MENTAL-STATE LANGUAGE FALSE-BELIEF YOUNG-CHILDREN MOTHERS AMERICAN SELF DISCOURSE EMOTION CULTURE TALK
DOI	10.1177/0165025414562484
英文摘要	The present study investigated how Chinese children develop theory of mind (ToM) in a language environment with limited mental state talk that is rich in behavior discourse. In Study 1, 60 mothers shared a wordless storybook with their 3-4-year-olds. The children completed two false-belief tasks and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised at the same time and again 1 year later. Mothers' early behavior clarifications during book-sharing predicted children's later false-belief understanding independent of children's early false-belief scores; children's early verbal ability; maternal education; and mothers' early mental state clarifications, simple mental state mentions, and simple behavior mentions. Using a discussion paradigm, Study 2 experimentally exposed 46 children aged 4 to 5 years to mental state or behavior clarifications or physical features of object talk (control group) through storytelling. Children in the experimental groups showed improvement in false-belief tasks from the pretest to the posttest. These findings indicate that behavior clarifications facilitated Chinese children's mental understanding, suggesting a culture-specific mechanism for ToM development.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170995, 31371040]; National Basic Research Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Program) [2010CB833904]; SSCI; ARTICLE; yjsu@pku.edu.cn; 1; 21-30; 40
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/446222]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Yanchun,Wang, Yijie,Luo, Rufan,et al. From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT,2016.
APA	Liu, Yanchun,Wang, Yijie,Luo, Rufan,&Su, Yanjie.(2016).From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT.
MLA	Liu, Yanchun,et al."From the external to the internal: Behavior clarifications facilitate theory of mind (ToM) development in Chinese children".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT (2016).