What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal SDO, RWA, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind

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What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal SDO, RWA, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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The present study provided a novel examination of how children’s theory of mind (ToM) might be related to two maternal beliefs: (1) social dominance orientation (SDO: the belief that inequalities in society are justified) and (2) right-wing authoritarianism (RWA: a belief in following established authorities). We reasoned that these beliefs could affect maternal talk in that mothers with high SDO and RWA would be less likely to use mental state (MS) talk to explore peoples’ desires and feelin...

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Article

Date created

2024-10-25

Creator

Kong, Qiuyi / Fraser, Harry / Elwina, Felicia Crysta / Ruffman, Ted

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/43291

Related subjects

Mental state talk / parenting / theory of mind / prejudice

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