Children understand that agents maximize expected utilities.
A growing set of studies suggests that our ability to infer, and reason about, mental states is supported by the assumption that agents maximize utilities—the rewards they attain minus the costs they incur. This assumption enables observers to work backward from agents’ observed behavior to their un...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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American Psychological Association (APA)
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113203 |