The Invisible Hand: Toddlers Connect Probabilistic Events With Agentive Causes
Children posit unobserved causes when events appear to occur spontaneously (e.g., Gelman & Gottfried, 1996). What about when events appear to occur probabilistically? Here toddlers (M = 20.1 months) saw arbitrary causal relationships (Cause A generated Effect A; Cause B generated Effect B) in a...
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Wiley Blackwell
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113065 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-4925 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 |