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ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2025

Beliefs About the Development of Mental Life.

Kara Weisman, Lucy S King, Kathryn Humphreys

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3 authors.

Kara WeismanDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3706-7554
Lucy S KingDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2552-0614
Kathryn HumphreysDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5715-6597

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caregiving relationships with infants and children are among the most common and most complex human social interactions. Adults' perceptions of children's mental capacities have important consequences for the well-being of children in their care-particularly in the first few years of life, when children's communication skills are limited and caregivers must infer children's rapidly developing thoughts, feelings, and needs. In a series of studies, we assessed how US adults conceptualize the development of the human mind over the first five years of life. Exploratory factor analysis identified four core capacities that anchored participants' representations of the developing human mind:

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child developmentcognitive developmentemotional developmentfolk theoriesmind perceptionparenting, social development

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PMID40337360
PMCPMC12058329

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