1. GIOVANNA DEVETAG
Information acquired: 2025
GIOVANNA DEVETAG is an academic who published a paper in 2013 entitled Theory of Mind in the Social Sciences: An Experiment On Strategic Thinking in Children. GIOVANNA DEVETAG published this work as part of a team: Devetag, Giovanna. Here is a description of this work: This study investigates mentalizing and strategic thinking in children in elementary school age (from 7 to 12 years old). Drawing from previous literature in behavioral and experiments economics and cognitive science, we conduct experiments in which children of different ages make choices in a series of one-shot, simultaneous move two-person games in normal form. We test the ability of our subjects to reason strategically and compare their behavioral patterns with those of adult players engaged in similar tasks (Di Guida and Devetag 2012). Our results show that even younger children are capable of perspective taking: they seem to grasp the essence of strategic thinking, to recognize similarities across games, and behave consistently. In addition, children are sensitive to the attractive power of focal points (Di Guida and Devetag 2012),.