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Publication Date: 1999
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Shape Constancy and Theory of Mind: Is There a Link?
Mitchell, Peter; Taylor, Laura M.
Cognition, v70 n2 p167-90 Mar 1999
In three shape-constancy experiments, 4- and 7-year olds viewed a circular disc oriented at a slant. All subjects exaggerated circularity of the disc when they knew the object was a circle. Findings suggest that knowledge of reality contaminates judgments of appearance in circle task and this is the same bias that features in realist errors in theory of mind tasks. (LBT)
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Language: English
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