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False Belief Memory

False Belief Memory is a psychological construct that denotes a specific type of false memory characterized by the erroneous recollection of having held a belief that was never actually possessed, distinguished from other false memories by its focus on memory distortions involving mental states rather than perceptual or factual details.

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325

Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception

Heinz Wimmer · Cognition · 1983 · 6.3K citations

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Relating Effortful Control, Executive Function, and False Belief Understanding to Emerging Math and Literacy Ability in Kindergarten

Clancy Blair, Rachel A. Razza · Child Development · 2007 · 3.1K citations

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Misinformation and Its Correction

Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert et al. · Gothic.net · 2012 · 2.8K citations

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Alison Gopnik, Janet Wilde Astington · Child Development · 1988 · 1.2K citations

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Alison Gopnik, Janet Wilde Astington · Child Development · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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Authors

775

  1. HO
    Henry Otgaar

    Maastricht University, Netherlands

    16 publications · 488 citations

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  2. EF
    Elizabeth F. Loftus

    University of Washington, United States

    15 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. ML
    Mark L. Howe

    City, University of London, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 296 citations

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  4. DM
    Daniel M. Bernstein

    Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada

    8 publications · 504 citations

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  5. JP
    Josef Perner

    University of Salzburg, Austria

    7 publications · 572 citations

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Institutions

335

  1. Maastricht University

    Maastricht, The Netherlands

    15 h-index

    53 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    13 h-index

    30 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    34 publications

    3.4K citations

  4. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    4.9K citations

  5. University of Salzburg

    Salzburg, Austria

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    7.7K citations

  6. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    1K citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    545 citations

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  1. Child Development

    25 publications · 8.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

    JECP · 23 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Memory & Cognition

    17 publications · 946 citations

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  4. Cognitive Development

    16 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. Cognition

    14 publications · 8.5K citations

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