16-Month-Olds Rationally Infer Causes of Failed Actions

Sixteen-month-old infants (N = 83) rationally used sparse data about the distribution of outcomes among agents and objects to solve a fundamental inference problem: deciding whether event outcomes are due to themselves or the world. When infants experienced failed outcomes, their causal attributions...

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Main Authors: Gweon, Hyowon (Contributor), Schulz, Laura E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016-06-09T18:58:49Z.
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