{"pk":26638,"title":"The Relationship Between Mental-state Language and False-belief Understandingin Adulthood","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Research has revealed a robust relationship between preschooler’s use of mental-state language (e.g. think, know)and performance on false-belief tasks (e.g. Ruffman, Slade & Crow, 2002). However, investigations of this relationship withschool-aged children have shown mixed results, making it unclear whether mental-state talk continues to play a role in false-belief understanding following the preschool years (e.g. Charman & Shmueli-Goetz, 1998; Grazzini & Ornaghi, 2012). Thisdiscrepancy may result from the fact that preschooler’s talk has consistently been assessed during interpersonal interactions withpeers, siblings, and parents, while school-aged children’s talk has been assessed via descriptions of wordless picture books orabsent friends. The present study bridges this gap by exploring whether adults’ use of mental-state language during interactioncorrelates with their false-belief performance. In doing so, we help to shed light on an important issue in theoretical accountsof the development of false-belief understanding.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04b0d1wk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Erin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Roby","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Alexandra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Paxton","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Rick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dale","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Rose","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scott","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26638/galley/16274/download/"}]}