Marina Proft
University of Göttingen
18 Papers
8 Citations
Marina Proft is an academic researcher from University of Göttingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Theory of mind. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
Children's understanding of the aspectuality of intentions.
TL;DR: Testing children's understanding of the aspectuality of intentions in a simplified, cognitively less demanding design revealed that an understanding of aspectual intentions seems to develop at around the late preschool years-much earlier than previously assumed.
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Chimpanzees consider freedom of choice in their evaluation of social action
TL;DR: It is found that chimpanzees were more likely to accept the non-preferred food and showed fewer negative emotional responses when the experimenter was physically constrained compared with when they had free choice, and an effect of ignorance on chimpanzee's evaluation was found.
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How do children overcome their pragmatic performance problems in the true belief task? The role of advanced pragmatics and higher-order theory of mind
TL;DR: The authors found that children before age four perform competently in the true belief control condition of the classical location-change task, but children who begin to solve the false belief condition at age four, however, fail the TB condition and only from around age 10, children succeed again.
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What is the cognitive basis of the side‐effect effect? An experimental test of competing theories
TL;DR: Proft et al. as discussed by the authors found that intentionality judgments could best be explained by underlying shifts in default attitudes, leading to the predicted change in intentionality judgment. But they did not consider the effect of moral evaluations.
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Children’s Developing Understanding of the Subjectivity of Intentions – A Case of “Advanced Theory of Mind”
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an understanding of the subjectivity of intentions and how children develop a sense of aspectuality of intentions, and how they develop an awareness of their subjectivity.
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