Project Overview
- Status: Collecting data (sign up here)
- Stage 1 Registered Report given ‘In Principle Acceptance’ at Child Development
In this ongoing project we aim to investigate a fundamental feature of human social cognition: Theory of Mind (ToM), or the ability to ascribe mental states to agents. One of the central tests for ToM is the false belief task, in which the participant needs to predict how an agent will act on the basis of her/his (mis)representation of the world. Using a false belief task (3D-animated videos), we ask if infants (18- to 27-month-olds) and adults show anticipatory looking that reflects the false belief of another agent. Our contributors include the authors of the original studies and of previous replication attempts, as well researchers from diverse theoretical orientations (e.g., nativist and core knowledge, dual process, conceptual change and skeptics). Following the anticipatory looking study, we hope to continue the project with other measures such as Violation of Expectation, and interactive tasks.
Project Leads
- Dora Kampis, University of Copenhagen, Denmark [email]
- Hannes Rakoczy, University of Göttingen, Germany [email]
- Tobias Schuwerk, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany [email]
- Michael Frank, Stanford University, USA [email]
Links
- Materials, Protocols, and Documentation: MB2-OSF, MB2 Lab Manual
- Data and code: MB2-GitHub
- Listserv: join here
- Slack: MB workspace (join the #mb2-general channel)
- Spin-Off: MB2P: Pupil
Contributors
- For a detailed index of collaborators (+ institutions, countries, studies), see the MB collaborator dashboard.
We encourage everyone who is interested in the project to contact the Project Leads (see above) or fill out the MB Sign-Up Form.
Please note that access to infants/infant lab is NOT a prerequisite.
Publications
Schuwerk, T.*, Kampis, D.*, Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dörrenberg, S., Fisher, C., Franchin, L., Fulcher, T., Garbisch, I., Geraci, A., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Hamlin, J. K., Haun, D. B. M., Hepach, R., Hunnius, S., Hyde, D. C., Karman, P., Kosakowski, H., Kovács, A. M., Krämer, A., Kulke, L., Lee, C., Lew-Williams, C., Liszkowski, U., Mahowald, K., Mascaro, O., Meyer, M., Moreau, D., PernerJ., Poulin-Dubois, D., Powell, L., Prein, J. C., Priewasser, B., Proft, M., Raz, G., Reschke, P. J., Ross, J., Rothmaler, K., Saxe, R., Schneider, D., Southgate, V., Surian, L., Tebbe, A., Träuble, B., Tsui, A. S. M., Wertz, A., Woodward, A., Yuen, F., Yuile, A. R., Zellner, L., Zimmer, L., Frank, M. C., & Rakoczy, H. (Stage 1 Registered Report, In Principle Acceptance). Action anticipation based on an agent’s epistemic state in toddlers and adults. Child Development. (*co-first authors) PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/x4jbm
to cite, use (Schuwerk & Kampis et al., accepted pending data collection)