A study that questioned earlier findings
Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs?
Kristine H. Onishi, Renée Baillargeon · 2005 · Science
- Children
- About 60 babies
- Where
- A lab in Illinois, United States
- Ages
- About 15 months
- How
- Researchers measured how long babies looked at different scenes
- What it found
- Babies looked longer when an actor searched where she couldn't know the toy was, which the authors read as early understanding of untrue beliefs.
- Limits
- Reports group results only. Later attempts to repeat studies like this often failed.