Young children's storybooks as a source of mental state information
By Jennifer R. Dyer, Marilyn Shatz, Henry Wellman. 2000
176 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Raymond A. Mar
- Henry Wellman
- David Liu
- K. Lagattuta
- Joan Peskin
- Dorit Aram
- Janet Wilde Astington
- Stephanie M. Carlson
Citations in the corpus
- The effects of adding metacognitive language to story texts (2004, background): “While the control group stories were stripped of metacognitive vocabulary, implicit mentalistic concepts, however, occur with great frequency in picture books (Cassidy et al., 1998; of volition, as well as implicit references via pictures and ironic situations (Dyer et al., 2000.)”
- Mothers' Storybook Reading and Kindergartners' Socioemotional and Literacy Development (2009, background): “For example, Dyer, Shatz, and Wellman (2000) studied words, expressions, pictures, and situations presented in certain children’s books that referred to the characters’ thoughts, feelings, or intentions.”
- Mothers' and Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with their Young Children (2008, methodology): “included in this analysis were used in previous studies of parents’ use of internal state language (see Bartsch & Wellman, 1995; Brown & Dunn, 1991, 1996; Dunn et al., 1987; Dyer et al., 2000; Jenkins et al., 2003; Lagattuta & Wellman, 2002; Shatz & Gelman, 1973).”
- Exposure to media and theory-of-mind development in preschoolers (2010, background): “In an in-depth content analysis of 90 books for 3–4 and 5–6 year-olds, Dyer, Shatz, and Wellman (2000) found that the incidence of mental-state references was frequent, occurring once every three sentences or so.”
- The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “Even simple children’s stories regularly deal in situations that involve the inference of belief, and these stories are full of mental-state language (Cassidy et al. 1998, Dyer et al. 2000).”