Theory of mind and executive function during middle childhood across cultures
- Wang, Zhenlin
- Devine, Rory T.
- Wong, Keri K.
- Hughes, Claire
DOIAbstract
AbstractPrevious studies with preschoolers have reported “East–West” contrasts in children’s executive function (East>West) and theory of mind (East<West). This cross-cultural study with two samples of older children from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong aimed to test competing accounts of these contrasts that focus on either global effects of culture or more specific effects of pedagogical experience. Both groups of children in Hong Kong outperformed the British children on executive function tasks. That is, with respect to executive function, general cultural influences appear to be salient. In contrast, compared with their U.K. counterparts, children attending local schools in Hong Kong (but not those attending British-based internationa...
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