Preschoolers' Understanding of Others' Desires: Fulfilling Mine Enhances My Understanding of Yours

Autor/inn/en	Atance, Cristina M.; Belanger, Michele; Meltzoff, Andrew N.
Titel	Preschoolers' Understanding of Others' Desires: Fulfilling Mine Enhances My Understanding of Yours
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 6, S.1505-1513 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0020374
Schlagwörter	Child Development; Mothers; Preschool Children; Task Analysis; Parent Child Relationship; Affective Behavior; Verbal Communication; Decision Making; Social Development; Emotional Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Mother; Mutter; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Aufgabenanalyse; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Soziale Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung
Abstract	We developed a gift-giving task requiring children to identify their mother's desire, when her desire differed from theirs. We found a developmental change: 3- and 4-year-olds performed more poorly than 5-year-olds (Experiment 1). A modified version of this task (Experiment 2) revealed that 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds whose desires had been fulfilled chose an appropriate gift for their mothers significantly more often than children whose desires were unfulfilled. Children who merely anticipated desire fulfillment also outperformed children whose desires were unfulfilled. Analysis of children's verbal explanations provides converging evidence that desire fulfillment enhanced children's tendency to adopt the perspective of their mother and justify their choices by referencing her desires. Discussion focuses on why desire fulfillment enhances children's ability to consider the desires of others. (Contains 4 tables and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10