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What’s wrong with those damned teenagers

What’s wrong with those damned teenagers

Feb 5th, 20091 Comment

Turns out those punk kids have a reason for ignoring your demand to get off your lawn: their brains aren’t developed enough.
University College in London has published a study that shows children have difficulty adopting the viewpoint of others. And while this improves with age, teens still have trouble putting themselves in your shoes. When kids under 4 watch two puppets put a marble in a box, researchers took one puppet away. The other puppet takes the marble out of the box and puts it in a bag. The children think the returning puppet will look in the bag — revealing they can’t comprehend that the second puppet only “knows” what it’s seen.
Advance this concept of “what others see” to those 7 to 27:

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