Three-year-olds' Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills.

ABSTRACT: Understanding others' perspectives and integrating this knowledge in social interactions is challenging for young children; even adults struggle with this skill. While young children show the capacity to understand what others can and cannot see under supportive laboratory conditions, more research is necessary to understand how children implement their perspective-taking (PT) skill during interactions and which socio-cognitive skills support their ability to do so. This preregistered study examined children's Level 1 visual PT in a real-time social interaction and tested whether social-cognitive skills (focusing on inhibition of imitation) predicted PT. Thirty-six 3-year-old children (mean age: 37.3 months) participated in a PT task and responded implicitly (via eye gaze) and explicitly (

SUBMITTER: Brezack N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378667 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature