A Japanese adaptation and validation of the self-concept development scale for parental reporting in relation to mental state language and socio-cognitive development
The journal of the International Association of Early Childhood Education 25 17-29 Oct 2018 [Refereed]
British Journal of Developmental Psychology Sep 2018 [Refereed]
To understand the executive demands of the false-belief (FB) task relative to an alternative theory-of-mind (or mechanical causality) task, picture sequencing, the present study used path analyses. One hundred and sixty-six children between 3 and ...
Depicting a protagonist's false-belief in the Frog Story: An investigation of linguistic and evaluative strategies used in written and oral narratives
Hiromi Tsuji
Osaka Shoin Women's University 8巻 59-68 Jan 2018
This series of three studies investigates the narrators' mental state references by linguistically depicting the protagonist's false-belief in the frog story. Study 1 found no difference in the proportion of people who made explicit false-belief r...
Japanese children's understanding events-representations of causality and intentionality predict theory of mind understanding
Hiromi Tsuji
IEICE Technical Report 116(436) 41-46 Jan 2017
Japanese children's ability to represent causality and intentionality was investigated for sequencing and narrating picture stories. The accuracy of three-, four- and five-year-old children differed significantly for the sequencing of pictures int...
When do Japanese-speaking people use mental verbs?
The Research Society of Osaka Shoin Women's University 7巻 27-38 Jan 2017
The present study examined situations in which Japanese-speakers use mental verbs to describe events. The experiment involved the participants viewing a series of video clips in which the main actress performed a series of actions, some of which l...
Developing children's understanding of others and their communication skills: A pathway to action-oriented research
Yamada Chieko
International Journal of Early Childhood Education Vol.23 83-92 Mar 2016 [Refereed]
This paper reports on a case study to improve the quality of educational practices in a Japanese kindergarten. This paper includes the rational of the study, the framework for action research with clear step-by-step processes and a provisional eva...
The role of adults in the development of children's expressive mental state language: Emotional expressiveness and the use of mental state terms
Hiromi Tsuji, Chieko Yamada
The Journal of International Association of Early Childhood Education Vol.23 29-42 Mar 2016 [Refereed]
The present study asked female adults about their use of mental state terms which were on the child mental state language lists, to examine the likelihood of children hearing these words. The frequency of the adults' use of mental state terms was ...
Individual differences in mental state language acquisition at the age of three: the relationship with the social environment and socio-cognitive development
Toi Yoko
IEICE Technical Report 115(418) 19-24 Jan 2016
This study examined the acquisition of mental state language by 3 year-old Japanese children. The parents of 530 children responded to a child mental state word checklist and questionnaires about socio-cognitive development. Individual differences...
Measuring individual differences in theory of mind: An adaptation of an interview method for Japanese adults
Yamasaki AyakaFujiwara Haduki
6巻 13-19 Jan 2016
The present study examined an interview method for measuring the theory of mind and its adaptation to a young adult Japanese population. The original interview method devised for English-speakers (Bosacki, 2000) used an ambiguous story to probe th...
The efficacy of reflection in narrative production: Can a reflective session facilitate the use of mental state talk in narrating a story?
Hiromi Tsuji
5巻 27-33 Jan 2015
The efficacy of reflection in narrative production was examined. The female students' (N = 54) evaluative strategy use in narrative production was assessed twice with an intermission of a reflective session. The frequency of evaluative strategy in...
The development of metalinguistic awareness for linguistic politeness was examined in 68 Japanese-speaking children aged between three and five years old. A politeness judgement task was administered together with several phonological judgement ta...
An exploratory examination of child mental state language in Japanese: adults' knowledge about the development of child language
Hiromi Tsuji, Sachiko Kitano
International Journal of Early Childhood Education 21 1-16 Mar 2014 [Refereed]
Our main goal for this line of research is to develop systematic checklists for child mental state language, which can be used as a tool for researchers and educators, including parents, to maximize their expertise to facilitate children's languag...
The role of adults in the development of expressive mental state language: emotional expressiveness and the use of mental state terms
Hiromi Tsuji, Chieko Yamada
114(440) 127-132 Feb 2014
An examination of the gaze-cueing effect using different method of gathering responses
Jan 2014
An Exploratory Analysis of 4-month-old infants' Behaviours Towards Picture Books in the Bookstart Context
Hiromi Tsuji
Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education 7(2) 5-28 May 2013 [Refereed]
Infant behaviours were observed for 261, 4-month-old infants when they attended the Bookstart programme. Infant behaviours in this context were analysed in relation to child characteristics. When infant gender, birth order, and parents' familiarit...
Differences in the narrative styles of female university students: implications for maternal use of linguistic strategies for storytelling to children
3巻 55-62 Jan 2013
How parenting style relates to the development of child mental state language
Hiromi Tsuji
International Journal of Early Childhood Education Vol.20 1-13 Oct 2012 [Refereed]
This study examined how different parenting styles might affect a child's development of mental state language.the parenting styles in terms of how parents respond to her child's positive and negative situations affects the child's mental state la...
A table of figurative similarity rating for Japanese 71 hiragana letters
Masahiro Kawakami, Hiromi Tsuji
The Science of Reading 54(3/4) 80-88 Jul 2012 [Refereed]
Maternal perceptual sensitivity to changes in facial expressions: A comparison with non-caregivers
Research Bulletin of Osaka Shoin Women's University 2巻 15-22 Jan 2012
Role of language processing in understanding false-beliefs
25 Sep 2018
Four-year-olds working memory and inhibitory control can predict the development of communicative competence one year later
British Psychological Society Developmental Section 2018 12 Sep 2018 British Psychological Society
Cognitive underpinnings for mindful-conversational competence: the role of executive functions in socio-cognitive development
TSUJI Hiromi
Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting 2018 31 May 2018 Jean Piaget Society
Is the false-belief task the best measure of mentalizing ability?
British Psychological Society Developmental Section 13 Sep 2017 British Psychological Society
Invisible agency: How do Japanese adults and children use language to retrodict false belief events ?
International Association for the Study of Child Language 19 Jul 2017
Japanese children's understanding of events-representations of causality and intentionality predict theory of mind understanding
Human communication Science (Psychology and Life-stage of communication, etc) 27 Jan 2017 IEICE Technical Committee
Developmental and cultural influences in theory of mind and person perception: How do Japanese children benefit from mindreading training?
International Congress of Psychology 2016 26 Jul 2016 International Union of Psychological Science
Japanese children in two different age groups (4 year-olds and 4.5 year-olds) received theory-of-mind training consisting of perspective-taking and mental state discourses over 4 sessions. The 4.5 year-olds, but not 4.0 year-olds, benefited from t...
Perspective-taking discourses can facilitate theory-of-mind in Japanese children
British Psychological Society Developmental Section 11 Sep 2015 British Psychological Society
Developing Japanese Children's Understanding of theory of mind by using perspective-taking discourses
Child Language Symposium 20 Jul 2015
Facilitating Japanese Children's Theory of mind: A training study using perspective-taking discourses
2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting 21 Mar 2015 Society for Research in Child Development
What determines the differences in maternal use of mental state language?
British Psychological Society Developmental Section 4 Sep 2014 British Psychological Society
Early development of expressive mental state language and adults' mental state references in Japanese daily life
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference 2014 10 Aug 2014 Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
Development of mental state vocabulary in the Japanese language: from a large-scale study of preschool- children
Sachiko Kitano, Chieko Yamada, Yoko Toi
European conference on Developmental Psychology 4 Sep 2013 European Society of Developmental Psychology
Developing children's empathy through socializations: the role of mental state conversations with children[Invited]
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference 2013 4 Jul 2013 Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
Interpretation of a protagonist's misrepresentation: An investigation of linguistic strategies in narrating a picture book
International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages 26 Oct 2012
Attentional gaze to a mutual relationship[Invited]
Gentle Teaching Workshop Oct 2012
Childrens belief attributions: longitudinal relationships between early dyadic conversation and theory-of-mind
British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference 8 Sep 2012
Parenting Style Influences the Early Development of Mental State Language
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association 20 Jul 2012
Mental state talks and the development of theory of mind
16 Sep 2011
Role of mental state talks in the development of social understanding in the Japanese language
British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference 7 Sep 2011
Story telling to children: what differences are related to child-rearing experiences?
Yoko Toi
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association 1 Aug 2011
Perceptual sensitivity to the facial expressions of children: child care experiences and narrative styles
Yoko Toi
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association 1 Aug 2011
Japanese children's mental state words and the understanding of other's mind
The 13th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 25 Jun 2011
