文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Advanced theory of mind and children's prosocial lie-telling in middle childhood: A training study

作者：Gao, Qiyang[1];Chen, Peiyao[2];Huang, Qianyao[1];Wang, Zhenlin[3]

机构：[1]Shaoxing Univ, Shaoxing 312010, Zhejiang, Peoples R China;[2]South China Normal Univ, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, Peoples R China;[3]Massey Univ, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand

年份：2024

卷号：246

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

收录：SSCI(收录号：WOS:001276407900001)、、Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85199097362)、WOS

基金：We thank the teachers and children for participating in this study. This work was supported by the Emerging Cross-Discipline of Philosophy Social Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (21XXJC05ZD) and the Youth Foundation of Social Science and Humanity, China Ministry of Education (20YJCZH033). The funding agency had no involvement in the study design; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; the writing of the manuscript; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Advanced theory of mind; Middle childhood; Prosocial lie-telling; Training; Fade-out; Conversation-based approach

外文摘要：Children's advanced theory of mind (AToM) is concurrently associated with their prosocial lie-telling. However, the causal link between AToM and prosocial lie-telling has not yet been demonstrated. To address this gap, the current study adopted a training paradigm and investigated the role of AToM in children's prosocial lie-telling in middle childhood. A total of 66 9- and 10-year-old children who did not demonstrate any prosocial lie-telling in a disappointment gift paradigm at the baseline were recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental group (n = 32) or an active control group (n = 34). The experimental group underwent a conversation-based training program of four sessions. The results showed significantly greater gains in AToM at the posttest for the experimental group children compared with the control group children, controlling for family socioeconomic status, children's literacy score, working memory, and inhibition. More important, the experimental group children were more likely to tell prosocial lies than the control group, even after controlling for the pretest AToM and other covariates. However, the training effects faded at the 6month follow-up test after the training's completion. These findings provide the first evidence for the causal role of AToM in the development of prosocial lie-telling in middle childhood. The fade-out effect is discussed in the context of educational interventions. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/).