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false-belief understanding: a standalone construct

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false-beliefunderstanding1 CONSTRUCTFalse-beliefWIMMER · DEVELOPMENTAL

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Developmental psychology

a child's grasp that others can hold beliefs that differ from reality and act on them.

In developmental psychology, false-belief understanding refers to a child's grasp that others can hold beliefs that differ from reality and act on them. This meaning comes from Wimmer (1983) in Cognition.[1]

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  1. Wimmer, H., & Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition, 13(1), 103-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(83)90004-5

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