Tracing the development of children´s understanding of others´emotions and mental states
Project goals
To explain and predict others' behaviour, children gradually come to an understanding that people have private minds, consisting of desires, emotions, beliefs, and intentions. Yet, recent neuro-scientific studies dissociate human ability to understand the mental from the emotional states of others claiming that understanding emotions develops earlier in ontogeny and follows a different developmental path than the ability to represent others' minds. To provide behavioral data in support of this hypothesis, the proposed study will examine the development of 5-, 7- and 9-year-olds' social-cognitive skills (understanding meaning, belief, intention, attitude) and their empathizing skills (understanding emotions). Controlling for language competence, the study will map a trajectory of children's development of mentalizing and empathizing skills. Since the data will be gathered in Czech in a way to be directly comparable to a set of existing data from English speakers, subsequent cross-linguistic analyses will identify the role of language and culture in interpreting the minds of others.
Keywords
sociální kogniceemocepokročilá teorie myslepochopení mentalních stavůdiskurzní ironiejazyk
Public support
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
Programme
Post-graduate (doctorate) grants
Call for proposals
Postdoktorandské granty 9 (SGA02009GA1PD)
Main participants
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Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
406/09/P305
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Studium vývinu dětského chápání emocí a reprezentace mysli u jiných
Annotation in Czech
Studie zmapuje vývinovou trajektorii chápání mysli a emocí jiných u pěti-, sedmi- a devítiletých dětí ve srovnání s dospělými. Dále bude vytvořena sada experimentálních nástrojů pro zkoumání jazykových a sociálně-kognitivních dovedností v češtině jak proexperimentalní tak pro klinické účely.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
CEP classification - main branch
AN - Psychology
CEP - secondary branch
AI - Linguistics
CEP - another secondary branch
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);
50103 - Cognitive sciences
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
60102 - Archaeology
60201 - General language studies
60202 - Specific languages
60203 - Linguistics
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
The project gone according to plan both in terms of expertise and in terms of disbursement of funds.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2009
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2011
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Apr 16, 2011
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP12-GA0-GP-U/03:3
Data delivery date
May 2, 2016
Finance
Total approved costs
1,772 thou. CZK
Public financial support
1,772 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK
Basic information
Recognised costs
1 772 CZK thou.
Public support
1 772 CZK thou.
100%
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
CEP
AN - Psychology
Solution period
01. 01. 2009 - 31. 12. 2011