A developmental psychologist who, with Michael Siegal, tested whether question wording affects apparent false-belief understanding. Asking where a character would look first clarified the requested prediction. This isolates one source of task difficulty: a child may interpret a question differently from the experimenter even when the underlying story is unchanged.[ref]
Where to look first for children's knowledge of false beliefs by Michael Siegal and Karen Beattie. 1991, initial-search wording experiments
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