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    "pk": 26487,
    "title": "Think Fast! Mental-state Language is Related to the Speed of False-belief Reasoning\nin Adulthood",
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    "abstract": "When tested appropriately, infants appear to demonstrate\nfalse-belief understanding in the first year of life. Some have\nargued that this is inconsistent with the well-established\nrelationship between social experience and preschoolers’\nfalse-belief performance. We argue that these two sets of\nfindings are not inconsistent because the ability to attribute\nfalse beliefs to others is necessary but not sufficient for false-\nbelief performance, and we propose several ways that one\nsocial factor, hearing and using mental-state language, might\nrelate to false-belief performance throughout the lifespan. We\ntested this account by examining the relationship between\nadults’ use of mental-state language and their false-belief\nunderstanding. Participants’ use of mental-state language was\nrelated to how quickly they could accurately predict the\nbehavior of agents on the basis of desires and beliefs. These\nfindings provide the first evidence that mental-state talk and\nfalse-belief performance are related into adulthood.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "false-belief understanding; theory of mind;\nmental-state reasoning; social cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20k770m7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Erin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Roby",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Califonia, Merced",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rose",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Scott",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Califonia, Merced",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}