?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Influence+of+Fantasy+on+Children's+Understanding+of+Pretense&rft.creator=Lillard%2C+Angeline+S&rft.creator=Sobel%2C+David&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.description=Many+have+thought+that+children+have+an+early+appreciation+of+the+mind+in+the+case+of+pretend+play.+Results+from+several+experiments+are+against+this+(Joseph%2C+in+press%2C+Exps.+2-3%3B+Lillard%2C+1993a%3B+Lillard%2C+1996%3B+Lillard%2C+in+press%3B+Rosen%2C+Schwebel+%26+Singer%2C+1997).+However%2C+an+experiment+by+Lillard+(1996%2C+Exp.+4)+suggested+that+when+a+pretense+is+about+a+fantasy+character%2C+instead+of+a+real+entity%2C+children+might+have+a+better+understanding+of+the+mind's+involvement.+The+present+experiment+tested+this%2C+and+found+that+indeed%2C+when+pretending+to+be+a+fantasy+character+is+at+issue%2C+4-year-olds+are+significantly+more+apt+to+indicate+the+mind's+involvement.&rft.date=1998-02&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F614%2F1%2Fwriteup_lk_1.html&rft.identifier=++Lillard%2C+Angeline+S+and+Sobel%2C+David++(1998)+The+Influence+of+Fantasy+on+Children's+Understanding+of+Pretense.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F614%2F