Happily egocentric: the impact of mood on children’s mentalising, an exploratory study
= .43). Our exploratory study suggests that, like adults, happier children appear more egocentric in their mentalising. Future work is needed, with larger sample sizes and to understand whether the differences across age groups reflect a genuinely age-related change, or an artefact of the mood manipulation used.
Authors
- Andrew Surtees (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-9723)
- Bryony Fenton
- Pardis Hashmezadeh
Institutions
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cognition & Emotion
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2723966
- Primary Topic
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00