Two samples of Nigerian (Hausa) children were given two tests of egocentrism. One test involved the identification of right and left hands; the second test involved visual perspective. Correct identification of the child's own hands occurred by the age of six years, but correct identification of the investigator's hands was much later than that reported previously. Understanding of differences in visual perspective was achieved by 75% of the eight- to nine-year-old children. The correlation between the two tests was only moderate (r = .30).
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