Banerjee, Robin and Yuill, Nicola (1999) Children's understanding of self-presentational display rules: Associations with mental-state understanding. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17 (1). pp. 111-124. ISSN 0261-510X

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Abstract

The 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.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Robin Banerjee
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:48
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2012 11:58
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14467

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