School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Child Dev. 2012 Mar-Apr;83(2):452-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01730.x. Epub 2012 Feb 15.
Children (aged 6-10) and adults (total N = 136) completed a novel visual perspective-taking task that allowed quantitative comparisons across age groups. All age groups found it harder to judge the other person's perspective when it differed from their own. This egocentric interference did not decrease with age, even though, overall, performance improved. In addition, it was more difficult to judge one's own perspective when it differed from that of the other person, suggesting that the other's perspective was processed even though it interfered with self-perspective judgments. In a logically equivalent, nonsocial task, the same degree of interference was not observed. These findings are discussed in relation to recent findings suggesting precocious theory-of-mind abilities in infancy.
儿童（6-10 岁）和成人（共 136 人）完成了一项新颖的视觉视角任务，允许在年龄组之间进行定量比较。所有年龄组在他人的观点与自己的观点不同时，发现判断他人观点更加困难。这种自我中心干扰并没有随着年龄的增长而减少，尽管整体表现有所提高。此外，当自己的观点与他人的观点不同时，判断自己的观点更加困难，这表明即使他人的观点干扰了自我观点的判断，也会对其进行处理。在逻辑上等效的非社交任务中，没有观察到相同程度的干扰。这些发现与最近的研究结果有关，这些结果表明婴儿时期的心理理论能力早熟。
