creators_name: Lillard, Angeline S creators_name: Sobel, David type: preprint datestamp: 1998-03-13 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:07 metadata_visibility: show title: The Influence of Fantasy on Children's Understanding of Pretense ispublished: unpub subjects: dev-psy full_text_status: public abstract: 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, in press, Exps. 2-3; Lillard, 1993a; Lillard, 1996; Lillard, in press; Rosen, Schwebel & Singer, 1997). However, an experiment by Lillard (1996, Exp. 4) suggested that when a pretense is about a fantasy character, instead of a real entity, children might have a better understanding of the mind's involvement. The present experiment tested this, and found that indeed, when pretending to be a fantasy character is at issue, 4-year-olds are significantly more apt to indicate the mind's involvement. date: 1998-02 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: Lillard, Angeline S and Sobel, David (1998) The Influence of Fantasy on Children's Understanding of Pretense. [Preprint] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/614/1/writeup_lk_1.html