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The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief
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This research examines whether children's difficulties with deception and false belief arise from a lack of inhibitory control rather than from a conceptual deficit. In 3 studies, 3-year-olds deceived frequently under conditions requiring relatively low inhibitory control (e.g., misleading pictorial cues or arrows) but failed to do so under conditions of high inhibitory control (deceptive pointing). Study 2 ruled out that the findings were due to social intimidation: Children were equally successful using an arrow to deceive under anonymous and public conditions. Study 3 indicated that, under well-controlled conditions, children did not reveal greater understanding of false belief in deceptive than nondeceptive conditions. The results of these studies suggest that children may have greater deceptive abilities than some earlier studies indicated, and that the source of their difficulty on deceptive pointing tasks lies in a failure of inhibitory control. More generally, it is argued that children's performance on false belief tasks is also likely to be affected by inhibition deficits.
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- Authors
- Carlson, S. M., Moses, L. J., & Hix, H. R.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1998-06-01
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 672-691
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2162421167
- Cited by
- 406
- References
- 71
- FWCI
- 20.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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