What can we say about the inner experience of the young child?

By Charles Fernyhough. 2009

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Abstract Inner experience is proposed as a basis for self-interpretation in both children and adults, but young children's inner experience may not be comparable to our own. I consider evidence on children's attribution of inner experience, experience sampling, and the development of inner speech, concluding that Carruthers' theory should predict a developmental lag between mindreading and metacognition.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology