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Promoting theory of mind during middle childhood: a training program
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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:59 authored by Serena Lecce, Federica Bianco, Rory T Devine, Claire Hughes, Robin BanerjeeRobin BanerjeeEvidence that conversations about the mind foster improvements in theory of mind (ToM) is growing, but their efficacy in typically developing school-aged children has yet to be demonstrated. To address this gap, we designed a conversation-based training program for 9- and 10-year-olds and measured its effectiveness by pre- and post-test comparisons of performance on age-appropriate ToM tasks for two groups (matched at pre-test for gender, age, socioeconomic background, verbal ability, reading comprehension, executive functions, and ToM) who were assigned to either the intervention condition (n=45) or an active control condition (n=46). The intervention group showed significantly greater gains in ToM than the control group; this contrast was stable over 2 months, and (in a subsample) the improvement in ToM was independent of any changes in executive functions. Implications for the role of conversations about the mind in children's mental state reasoning are discussed.
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Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyISSN
0022-0965Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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126Page range
52-67Department affiliated with
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2015-07-31Usage metrics
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