@article{ref1,
title="Knowing that I didn't know: preschoolers' understanding of their own false belief is a predictor of assents to fictitious events",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="2005",
author="Thomsen, Yvonne and Berntsen, Dorthe",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="507-527",
abstract="The present study examines the relation between children's theory of mind abilities and their tendency to assent to fictitious events when questioned repeatedly across interviews. Children between the ages of 3 and 6 years were interviewed individually either four or seven times about a fictitious and a real staged event, and in addition given a false belief test as well as a fantasy-reality distinction test. Children's performance on the false belief task addressing the understanding of their own false belief was a better predictor for assents to false events than was understanding the false belief of another person, age, number of interviews and performance on a fantasy-reality distinction task. Children's memory for a staged event showed that repeated questions across interviews was related to a decrease in correct assents to having experienced a staged event, an increase in wrong yes-responses about touch and erroneously mentioning names of children who had not been present during the staged event. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/acp.1123",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1123"
}