Prospects and challenges in the use of puppets in developmental psychology: Royal road to the child's mind or a dead end?

M Paulus, J Caporaso - Cognitive Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to examine young children, developmental science has relied extensively on
puppets, dolls, and animated stimuli. While some scholars regarded this as a royal road to …

Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate

B Revencu, G Csibra - Cognitive Development, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of animations and puppet shows in developmental research has recently been
questioned on external validity grounds. Do infants and children interpret symbolic stimuli …

In the United States, children are more likely than adults to condone discrimination

V Liu, A Cimpian - Cognitive Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Discriminatory acts (ie, harmful acts motivated by the victim's group membership) have
outsized consequences for the victim and for society relative to similar harms committed for …

Schadenfreude or empathy? Children's emotional responses to the physical pain and pleasure of prosocial and antisocial others

Y Wang, W Zhou, J Zhu, Y Su - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Adults' emotional reactions to the pain and pleasure of others are influenced by the moral
character of those individuals. However, it remains unclear whether children's emotional …

Opaque windows in puppet studies: A response to Lillard (2022), Rakoczy (2022), Wellman & Yu (2022), and Yu & Wellman (2022)

MJ Packer, FA Moreno-Dulcey - Cognitive Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In our article (Packer & Moreno-Dulcey, 2022) we pointed out that the use of
puppets in Theory of Mind tasks (1) requires young children to pretend, which (2) introduces …

[PDF][PDF] Opening the black box of early depiction interpretation: From whether to how in the Theory-of-Puppets debate. Commentary on Kominsky, Lucca, Thomas …

B Revencu, G Csibra - 2020 - osf.io
The use of animations and puppet shows in developmental research has recently been
questioned on external validity grounds. Do infants and children interpret symbolic stimuli …

Biological and cognitive mechanisms and the role of culture in theory of mind development: in need of an integrative, biocultural perspective?

E Chrysochoou - Psychology: the Journal of the …, 2023 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
The present paper attempts a comprehensive approach to the biological, cognitive, as well
as cultural foundations of theory of mind development. A critical analysis and synthesis of …

Children are More Likely than Adults to Condone Discrimination

V Liu, A Cimpian - Available at SSRN 4801086 - papers.ssrn.com
Discriminatory acts (ie, harmful acts motivated by the victim's group membership) have
outsize consequences for the victim and for society relative to similar harms committed for …