Theory of mind development in Chinese children: a meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across cultures and languages.

By David Liu, Henry Wellman, Twila Tardif, Mark A. Sabbagh. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, neutral): “, 2005; Liu, Wellman, Tardif, & Sabbagh, 2008), although the age at which subjects can pass the explicit version of the false belief task varies from 4 to at least 9 (Boesch, 2007; Callaghan et al., 2005; Liu et al., 2008), with industrialized populations at the extreme low end.”
False-belief understanding in infants (2010, neutral): “countries [10,11].”
Culture and the sequence of steps in theory of mind development. (2011, background): “Furthermore, as others have noted (see e.g., Callaghan et al., 2005; Liu et al., 2008) moving ToM research beyond its traditional concentration on middle-class North American, European, and Australian preschoolers to include children in rarely studied nations and cultures throughout the world could…”
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind From Preschool to Adolescence: Achievements and Directions (2015, neutral): “mind for typically developing preschoolers and (13) and young children with hearing impairments born to either deaf or hearing parents (14); training studies in which exposure to mental-state discourse improves preschoolers’ theory of mind (15); and cross-cultural contrasts in the timing (16) and se”
Do Bilinguals Have an Advantage in Theory of Mind? A Meta-Analysis (2018, background): “For example, meta-analyses have revealed faster Theory of Mind development for children from mainland China, Canada, and the United States relative to children from Hong Kong (Liu et al., 2008), and for children from Australia and Canada relative to children from Austria and Japan (Wellman et al.”
Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science (2018, neutral): “However, this literature contains several inconsistent findings that cannot be explained by cultural differences (see Liu et al., 2008; Mayer & Träuble, 2015).”
The Development of Empathy : How , When , and Why (2010, background): “The developmental trajectory in regard to performance in this task is similar across cultures, although there is some discrepancy in the timing of development (Liu et al. 2008).”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “…infancy, in this section we take a moment to discuss the glaring question raised by these findings: If young children are capable of false-belief understanding, why do they consistently fail at standard elicited-response tasks (e.g., Callaghan et al., 2005; Liu et al., 2008; Wellman et al., 2001)?”