= Karen Beattie
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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.<Where to look first for children's knowledge of false beliefs by Michael Siegal and Karen Beattie>[1991, initial-search wording experiments]{ref}
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