{"pk":27913,"title":"Children can use others' emotional expressions to infer their knowledge and predict their behaviors in classic false belief tasks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigate whether emotional expressionsprovide cues to knowledge sufficient for predicting others’behavior based on their true and false beliefs. We adapted theclassic Sally-Anne task (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, 1985)such that children (N = 62, mean: 5.58 years, range: 4.05-6.98years) were not told whether Sally saw Anne move the objector not. However, when Sally came back looking angry, evenfour-year-olds inferred that she had seen Anne move her toy;when she came back looking happy, children inferred that shehad not seen the transfer. Based on these inferences, five andsix-year-olds, although not four-year-olds, were able topredict where Sally would look for her toy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"emotion understanding; emotional expressions; theory of mind; false beliefs; knowledge state"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/105084rd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Jennah","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Haque","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27913/galley/17551/download/"}]}