Belief-emotion lag and the child΄s idea of heroism : can the curse of knowledge lift for dispositional inference?
Part of : Hellenic journal of psychology ; Vol.2, No.1, 2005, pages 46-58
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46-58
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A classic storybook episode involves a monster in wait for someone. Young childrenwho infer a protagonist's false belief that she is safe find it harder to understand that she actuallyfeels safe. Does that 'belief-emotion lag' encompass not just a short-term emotion suchas fear, but also a long-term emotion-related disposition of protagonists: here, heroism? Anew design showed that children aged 4-6 years who failed to infer the protagonist's falsebelief attributed a heroic disposition to the protagonist in contrast to children who did inferthe false belief. That coherent difference between the groups appropriately vanished for twotrue-belief controls. Testable suggestions arise on extending research to the full range of conceptsin the child's intuitive psychology, and on examining the curse of knowledge of situationaloutcomes.
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curse of knowledge, emotion, false belief, theory of mind
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Περιέχει διάγραμμα και βιβλιογραφία, Young childrens theory of mind
