{"title":"What Goes On in Strangers’ Minds? How Reading Children’s Books Affects Emotional Development","authors":"Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer","doi":"10.7202/1062100AR","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Based on recent studies in developmental psychology and cognitive narratology, this article shows the impact of Theory of Mind on children’s understanding and apprehension of other people’s thoughts and beliefs presented in fictional texts. With a special focus on the depiction of emotions in two children’s novels, Erich Kastner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) and Anne Cassidy’s Looking for JJ (2004), it is argued that the representation of the main characters’ states of mind demands specific capacities on behalf of the reader, encompassing mind reading and acquisition of higher levels of empathy, thus fostering children’s comprehension of fictional characters’ life conditions.","PeriodicalId":41935,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Works-Issues Investigations & Interventions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Works-Issues Investigations & Interventions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062100AR","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Based on recent studies in developmental psychology and cognitive narratology, this article shows the impact of Theory of Mind on children’s understanding and apprehension of other people’s thoughts and beliefs presented in fictional texts. With a special focus on the depiction of emotions in two children’s novels, Erich Kastner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) and Anne Cassidy’s Looking for JJ (2004), it is argued that the representation of the main characters’ states of mind demands specific capacities on behalf of the reader, encompassing mind reading and acquisition of higher levels of empathy, thus fostering children’s comprehension of fictional characters’ life conditions.
本文以发展心理学和认知叙事学的最新研究为基础，展示了心理理论对儿童理解和理解虚构文本中他人思想和信仰的影响。特别关注埃里克·卡斯特纳（Erich Kastner）的《埃米尔与侦探》（Emil and the Detectives）（1929）和安妮·卡西迪（Anne Cassidy，从而培养儿童对虚构人物生活状况的理解。
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