Developing deception detection skills: an investigation of theory of mind and emotion knowledge as precursors

Examining developmental factors that impact young children’s success in both social and cognitive domains has important implications for advancing our current knowledge concerning social cognitive development. Both emotion knowledge and perspective-taking skills impact how young children develop unique views the world; specifically, these skills are often relied upon for detecting deception in others. The purpose of the study was to examine predictors of children’s deception detection skills to shed light on the development of social cognition. Specifically, preschoolers’ emotion knowledge was examined as a potential moderator of the relation between Theory of Mind (ToM) and deception detection. Results indicated both children’s emotion knowledge and ToM develop over the preschool years and are positively related to the development of deception detection. However, emotion knowledge does not moderate the relation between ToM and deception detection.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Alabama Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Nancarrow, Alexandra Failor

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gilpin, Ansley T.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Barber, Angela B.
• Barth, Joan M.

• Psychology

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• All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US, English

Dc Identifier Other

u0015_0000001_0002269
Nancarrow_alatus_0004M_12703

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ir.ua.edu:123456789/2614