“John thinks that Mary thinks that…” attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children

1985/06/01 by Josef Perner, Heinz Wimmer · 1,367 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attribution #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Competence (human resources) #Discernment #Educational Strategies and Epistemologies #Epistemology #False belief #Inference #Language and cultural evolution #Law #Mistake #Order (exchange) #Philosophy #Psychology #Social psychology #Theory of mind

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-0965(85)90051-7

published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 39(3), 437-471 (Elsevier BV)

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