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, Schulz, Laura E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103094
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039