Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception

The present study examined the effects of role-play experience on children’s mindreading ability. Forty-one primary school children (20 boys, 21 girls, mean age: 9.37 years, range: 8–11 years) were introduced to a communication task in which the use of mindreading was essential. During each trial, p...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Furumi, Fumikazu, Koyasu, Masuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25120518
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00817
_version_ 1782328408408064000
author Furumi, Fumikazu
Koyasu, Masuo
author_facet Furumi, Fumikazu
Koyasu, Masuo
author_sort Furumi, Fumikazu
collection PubMed
description The present study examined the effects of role-play experience on children’s mindreading ability. Forty-one primary school children (20 boys, 21 girls, mean age: 9.37 years, range: 8–11 years) were introduced to a communication task in which the use of mindreading was essential. During each trial, participants viewed a shelf, presented on a laptop, which contained several familiar objects, and they were instructed to touch an object on the shelf following an order issued by a “manager” who stood at the opposite side of the shelf. There were two managers: one was a monkey manager with normal color vision, and the other was a dog manager with restricted color vision. The monkey manager could see all the objects in the same colors as the participants, whereas the dog manager saw some objects in different colors. Participants were required to respond according to the manager’s instruction. In the restricted color vision condition, the dog manager saw the colors of objects differently; thus, participants had to work out his intentions, according to his different perspective. In the normal color vision condition, all objects were in the same colors as those seen by the monkey manager. Before the test phase, participants in the role-play group were provided a role-play experience in which they assumed the role of the dog manager with restricted color vision. The experimental data were analyzed using a 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA (role-play condition × communication partner condition) to examine differences in the error rate. Both main effects and its interaction were significant. According to the post-hoc analyses, participants in the no-role-play condition made significantly more errors in the restricted color vision condition than in the normal color vision condition, whereas no such difference was found among participants in the role-play condition. These results suggest that role-play experience could facilitate mindreading of characters with restricted color vision.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4114258
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2014
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-41142582014-08-12 Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception Furumi, Fumikazu Koyasu, Masuo Front Psychol Psychology The present study examined the effects of role-play experience on children’s mindreading ability. Forty-one primary school children (20 boys, 21 girls, mean age: 9.37 years, range: 8–11 years) were introduced to a communication task in which the use of mindreading was essential. During each trial, participants viewed a shelf, presented on a laptop, which contained several familiar objects, and they were instructed to touch an object on the shelf following an order issued by a “manager” who stood at the opposite side of the shelf. There were two managers: one was a monkey manager with normal color vision, and the other was a dog manager with restricted color vision. The monkey manager could see all the objects in the same colors as the participants, whereas the dog manager saw some objects in different colors. Participants were required to respond according to the manager’s instruction. In the restricted color vision condition, the dog manager saw the colors of objects differently; thus, participants had to work out his intentions, according to his different perspective. In the normal color vision condition, all objects were in the same colors as those seen by the monkey manager. Before the test phase, participants in the role-play group were provided a role-play experience in which they assumed the role of the dog manager with restricted color vision. The experimental data were analyzed using a 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA (role-play condition × communication partner condition) to examine differences in the error rate. Both main effects and its interaction were significant. According to the post-hoc analyses, participants in the no-role-play condition made significantly more errors in the restricted color vision condition than in the normal color vision condition, whereas no such difference was found among participants in the role-play condition. These results suggest that role-play experience could facilitate mindreading of characters with restricted color vision. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4114258/ /pubmed/25120518 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00817 Text en Copyright © 2014 Furumi and Koyasu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Furumi, Fumikazu
Koyasu, Masuo
Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title_full Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title_fullStr Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title_full_unstemmed Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title_short Role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
title_sort role-play facilitates children’s mindreading of those with atypical color perception
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25120518
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00817
work_keys_str_mv AT furumifumikazu roleplayfacilitateschildrensmindreadingofthosewithatypicalcolorperception
AT koyasumasuo roleplayfacilitateschildrensmindreadingofthosewithatypicalcolorperception