摘要：The purpose of this study was to investigate developmental tendencies and age-related differences in the relationship between children`s cognitive and emotional perspective-taking ability. The subjects were 4-year-old (N=60),6-year-old (N=60) and 8-year-old (N=60) children. In each group,there were an equal number of boys and girls. Feshbach & Roe`s child perspective-taking ability test was modified for this study. The test included four facial expression cards and six different stories inducing three types of emotion: happy,sad and angry. This experiment consisted of a 3 (age) by 3 (emotional stories: happy,sad and angry) factorial design. The dependent measures were two response types: emotional and cognitive perspective-taking ability. The results showed that both cognitive and emotional perspective-taking ability increased with age. Happy emotional perspective-taking ability developed earlier than sad and angry perspective-taking ability. The correlation between cognitive and emotional perspective-taking ability increased with age..
