RT Journal Article
T1 Persuasion ability in children from 6 to 12 years old: relations to cognitive and affective theory of mind.
A1 Barajas-Esteban, María Carmen
A1 Linero-Zamorano, María José
A1 Alarcón-Postigo, Rafael
K1 Persuasión (Psicología)
K1 Filosofía de la mente
AB This study analyzes the relation between cognitive and affective components of theory of mind (ToM) in school-aged children and persuasion abilities. One-hundred forty-three normotypical school children aged 6 to 12 were administered cognitive and affective ToM tasks and one persuasion production task. A set of regression models showed that only the affective ToM component can predict both the persuasion total score and all its indicators´ scores. Children with a greater ability to attribute emotional mental states do not only produce a wider variety of persuasive arguments but also focused on the persuadee and those with mental-related content. Both Hidden Emotion and Belief-Emotion (negative) tasks have been predictive of persuasion total scores. This study provides data on specific contribution of cognitive ToM and affective ToM on indicators of variety and quality of persuasive arguments independently.
PB Frontiers
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36182
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36182
LA eng
NO Barajas, C, Linero, M-J and Alarcón, R (2022) Persuasion ability in children from 6 to 12 years old: Relations to cognitive and affective theory of mind. Front. Psychol. 13:966102. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.966102
NO Beca de la Universidad de Málaga al Proyecto ID B3-2019-02
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026