Povinelli, D. J., & Simon, B. B. (1998). Young children& #39;s understanding of briefly versus extremely delayed images of the self: Emergence of the autobiographical stance.
Eighty-eight young 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were scheduled for 2 testing sessions. On Visit 1, the children were videotaped playing a game while an experimenter covertly placed a large sticker on their head and covertly removed it after the game. One week later, the children were videotaped playing a different game. A sticker was again covertly placed on their heads. Half the children in each ...