CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF STRATEGIC INTERACTION.
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Title
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CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF STRATEGIC INTERACTION.
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Identifier
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AAI8112368
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identifier
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8112368
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Creator
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NEWMAN, DENIS BLIGH.
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Contributor
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Prof. Joseph Glick
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Date
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1981
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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A characterization of strategic interaction is proposed and used as a framework for analysing interviews of elementary school and college aged subjects which probed their interpretations of skits involving deception. A central feature of the analytic framework is a concept called "mutual belief" which refers to the beliefs that two actors share in common and assume each other to share in common. Deception is analysed as a strategic manipulation of these shared understandings which calls upon perspective-taking skills. The interpretations of the skits are analysed for their level of understanding of the deceiver's strategy in terms of the extent to which the subject understood the deceiver to have plans which contradicted the beliefs held by the victim. Because interpretations which include large discrepancies between the perspectives of the two characters require keeping the two views separate, it was expected that younger subjects would not understand the deceptions in the same way that the older subjects did. For many features of the interpretations of the skits such as lies, judgments of fairness, the victim's perception of the situation as well as the deceiver's overall strategy, age differences are reported which correspond to the complexity of the understanding as shown by the analysis. These analyses point to the usefulness of the proposed framework in accounting for the development of role-taking skills.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
