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Children's understanding of self-presentational display rules: Associations with mental-state understanding
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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:44 authored by Robin BanerjeeRobin Banerjee, Nicola YuillNicola YuillThe present research addressed children's understanding of self-presentational display rules: putting on false facial expressions in order to manipulate others' evaluations of the self. A sample of 4- to 6-year-olds was used to rest our hypothesis, that self-presentational display rules involve recursive cognition about others' mental states. Children completed a task measuring understanding of various display rules and additionally performed a second-order false-belief task. Results supported the hypothesis that an appreciation of second-order mental representation is associated with understanding self-presentational display rules but not with understanding prosocial display rules (designed to spare others' feelings). We discuss the likely interaction of social processes with the observed changes in mental-state understanding in relation to rile development of self-presentation.
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British Journal of Developmental PsychologyISSN
0261-510XPublisher
British Journal of Developmental PsychologyIssue
1Volume
17Page range
111-124ISBN
0261-510XDepartment affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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