The curse of knowledge: Mistaking your beliefs for those of others : Cognitive Daily

Posted on August 24, 2009 by zzz_zwp

“Here’s a task that four-year-olds can do but three-year-olds have some trouble with. Imagine Sally in the picture below is playing with a ball. She puts the ball in the box and goes to the kitchen to get a drink. While she’s gone, Bill takes the ball out of the box and puts it in the bucket. When Sally returns, where does she look for the ball?

Most three-year-olds will say Sally would look in the bucket, apparently failing to realize that Sally doesn’t know anything about what Bill did while she was gone. Some researchers have explained this phenomenon by speculating that young children haven’t yet formed a theory of mind; they don’t understand that other people can have thoughts independent of their own.

But Susan Birch and Paul Bloom believe they have found a scenario where adults make a similar error…

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