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THE GUARDIAN Tears, tantrums and other experiments

How do babies think? Alison Gopnik, professor of developmental psychology, explains

Wednesday January 26, 2000

When my son was a toddler his first question about a meal was always: "What's for dessert?" One day, we had pineapple in kirsch. He spat it out, then looked at the grown-ups devouring the stuff, and said: "Pineapple: it's yucky for me but it's yummy for you." For weeks afterwards, he would stop suddenly in the middle of a game and say, "Pineapple: yucky for me but yummy for you", as if he had discovered the most extraordinary fact of life. And in a sense he had: the realisation that people think and feel differently is a profound one.

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