Belief and Counterfactuality : A Teleological Theory of Belief Attribution

Rafetseder, Eva; Perner, Josef

Belief and Counterfactuality : A Teleological Theory of Belief Attribution

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2018

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Rafetseder, Eva

Perner, Josef

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Open Access Hybrid

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Psychologie

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Zeitschrift fur Psychologie. Hogrefe & Huber. 2018, 226(2), pp. 110-121. ISSN 2190-8370. eISSN 2151-2604. Available under: doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000327

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The development and relation of counterfactual reasoning and false belief understanding were examined in 3- to 7-year-old children (N = 75) and adult controls (N = 14). The key question was whether false belief understanding engages counterfactual reasoning to infer what somebody else falsely believes. Findings revealed a strong correlation between false belief and counterfactual questions even in conditions in which children could commit errors other than the reality bias (r p = .51). The data suggest that mastery of belief attribution and counterfactual reasoning is not limited to one point in development but rather develops over a longer period. Moreover, the rare occurrence of reality errors calls into question whether young children's errors in the classic false belief task are indeed the result of a failure to inhibit what they know to be actually the case. The data speak in favor of a teleological theory of belief attribution and challenges established theories of belief attribution.

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150 Psychologie

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counterfactual reasoning, basic conditional reasoning, false belief, teleology-in-perspective

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RAFETSEDER, Eva, Josef PERNER, 2018. Belief and Counterfactuality : A Teleological Theory of Belief Attribution. In: Zeitschrift fur Psychologie. Hogrefe & Huber. 2018, 226(2), pp. 110-121. ISSN 2190-8370. eISSN 2151-2604. Available under: doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000327

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@article{Rafetseder2018Belie-53649,
  year={2018},
  doi={10.1027/2151-2604/a000327},
  title={Belief and Counterfactuality : A Teleological Theory of Belief Attribution},
  number={2},
  volume={226},
  issn={2190-8370},
  journal={Zeitschrift fur Psychologie},
  pages={110--121},
  author={Rafetseder, Eva and Perner, Josef}
}

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