Study shows how children learn to talk about characters’ thoughts and feelings in stories

October 8, 2026 · 8:20 pm 1 sources

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• Study shows how children learn to talk about characters' thoughts and feelings in stories
  Phys.org · October 8, 2026 20:20
  An international research effort has examined how children develop the ability to express what story characters think, feel and perceive. Research groups from around the world collected 5,507 picture-based stories from 2,763 typically developing monolingual and bilingual children ages 3 to 13. The…