findings

• Selman found a positive correlation between age and the ability to take different perspectives in 60 children aged 4-6, and social cognition develops through a progressive age related sequence as a further analysis would confirm none of the children had regressed years later
• Fitzgerald and white found that development of perspective taking skills was related to parenting styles as parents who encouraged more victim-taking perspectives in situations of harm encouraged growth in PT
• our knowledge of PTs crucial role in social cognition allows us to to substitute punishment with exercises(role play) that foster perspective taking as the underlying issue is the that the child cannot see from the perspective of others
• not being able to distinguish between your own and external perspective can indicate autism
• Chinese participants did significantly better at perspective taking tasks than matched Americans because collectivist cultures tend to have an interdependent self