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Symeonidou, Mariel, Doherty, Martin J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892 and Ross, Josephine
(2025)
Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation linking developments in metacognition, inhibitory control, and theory of mind.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 249.
ISSN 0022-0965
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Abstract
This longitudinal study tracked the developmental relations linking metacognition, theory of mind, and inhibitory control in 52 children across a 1.5-year interval, beginning at 3 or 4 years of age. Metacognition and inhibitory control emerged before theory of mind and predicted subsequent theory of mind competence. Moreover, there was evidence of developmental mediation, whereby metacognition predicted inhibitory control, which predicted theory of mind. We suggest that metacognitive self-reflection may provide the “developmental enrichment” necessary to think about thinking, and when inhibitory control is sufficiently developed this thinking can be extended to complex reasoning about own and other minds.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: Data are freely available on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/cqt72). Funding information: This project was made possible by funding received from the Experimental Psychology Society (560 808009) and a University of Dundee PhD studentship held by the first author. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 3* ,/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/REFrank/3_ |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2024 12:56 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2024 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96798 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106103 |
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