A Socially Situated Advantage in Learning of Theory of Mind: A Comparison of American and
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A total of 112 American and Korean children, 4 and 5 years of age, participated in a study to test the relationship of cultural characteristics (interdependent or independent), as measured by the children's Self-View Questionnaire, with performance on three false belief tasks: unexpected object transfer task, person internal transfer task, and person external transfer task. The main question was whether the interdependent characteristics would facilitate children's mental state understanding when false belief stories focus on person movement. As predicted, American and Korean children responded differently to the Self-View measure, with American children higher in Social Potency and lower in Traditionalism than Korean children, indicating that American children were less interdependent than Korean children. There were no significant differences in performance on the object transfer false belief task between children from the two cultures, but Korean children performed better on the two person-related transfer tasks. The results suggest that Korean children may have an advantage in the understanding of person- related transfer tasks because of their interdependent characteristics.
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