Solving the Puzzle about Early Belief-Ascription. Helming, K. A., Strickland, B., & Jacob, P. Mind & Language, 31(4):438–469.
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Developmental psychology currently faces a deep puzzle: most children before 4 years of age fail elicited-response false-belief tasks, but preverbal infants demonstrate spontaneous false-belief understanding. Two main strategies are available: cultural constructivism and early-belief understanding. The latter view (unlike the former) assumes that failure at elicited-response false-belief tasks need not reflect the inability to understand false beliefs. The burden of early-belief understanding is to explain why elicited-response false-belief tasks are so challenging for most children under 4 years of age. The goal of this article is to offer a pragmatic framework whose purpose is to discharge this burden.
@article{helming_solving_nodate,
	title = {Solving the {Puzzle} about {Early} {Belief}-{Ascription}},
	volume = {31},
	copyright = {© 2016 John Wiley \& Sons Ltd},
	issn = {1468-0017},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mila.12114},
	doi = {10.1111/mila.12114},
	abstract = {Developmental psychology currently faces a deep puzzle: most children before 4 years of age fail elicited-response false-belief tasks, but preverbal infants demonstrate spontaneous false-belief understanding. Two main strategies are available: cultural constructivism and early-belief understanding. The latter view (unlike the former) assumes that failure at elicited-response false-belief tasks need not reflect the inability to understand false beliefs. The burden of early-belief understanding is to explain why elicited-response false-belief tasks are so challenging for most children under 4 years of age. The goal of this article is to offer a pragmatic framework whose purpose is to discharge this burden.},
	language = {en},
	number = {4},
	urldate = {2018-05-28},
	journal = {Mind \& Language},
	author = {Helming, Katharina A. and Strickland, Brent and Jacob, Pierre},
	pages = {438--469}
}

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