In the first experiment, pre-school children (N= 58) were confronted with a video of themselves holding a false belief about the contents of a box. Under these conditions children were significantly more likely to acknowledge their earlier statement of false belief than in a standard deceptive box procedure. Crucially, children who were asked what was inside the box succeeded in reporting the actual content in preference to what they heard themselves say on the video. Hence, we can assume that children who made correct judgments to the question about their prior stated belief had succeeded without losing track of the actual state of reality. In a second experiment (N= 71) we found that the facilitative effect of the video procedure occurred whether children were asked to report what they had said or infer what they had thought. We suggest that the video procedure makes children's initial belief mare salient, thus reducing the need to reconstruct the premises upon which the false belief will be based.

Key words: false belief, theory of mind, deceptive box, video