Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 649-657.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.06.02

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The Impact of Self-Projection on Episodic Foresight in Young Children: Evidence from Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

LIU Yan1,2, WANG Jing1,2, ZHANG Xiaoyan3   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China;
    2. Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Dalian 116029, China;
    3. Shandong Yishui County People's Hospital(traditional Chinese Medicine), Linyi 276400, China
  • Online:2017-11-15 Published:2017-11-15

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Abstract: Episodic foresight refers to the ability to mentally project the self into the future and pre-experience an event. To explore the effect of the self-projection on young children's episodic foresight, two experiments were conducted to compare the performance between self-perspective foresight and other-perspective foresight in young children. Two hundred and thirty-six typically developing (TD) children aged 3~5.5 years participated in experiment 1 in a between-subjects design. The results showed that TD children made better judgments for others than for themselves. Experiment 2 in a within-subjects design confirmed the results of experiment 1. More important, there was no significant difference between self-perspective foresight and other-perspective foresight in children with autism spectrum disorder. To conclude, the immature self-projection in young children might interfere with their self-involved episodic foresight, while autistic children with impaired self-projection would not.

Key words: young children, autism spectrum disorder, episodic foresight, self-projection

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