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The Signature of All Things: Children Infer Knowledge States from Static Images

2020-08-11

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<p>From minimal observable action, humans make fast, intuitive judgments about what other people think, want, and feel (Heider & Simmel, 1944). Even when no agent is visible, children can infer the presence of intentional agents based on the environmental traces that only agents could leave behind (Saxe et al., 2005; Newman et al., 2010). Here we show that, beyond inferring the presence of agents, four- to six...

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Literature Corpus work: e328b708-7517-52c1-b9a7-6d63bdb0b5dc
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f692k

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