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Direct linkRosie Aboody; Caiqin Zhou; Julian Jara-Ettinger – Child Development, 2025
As adults, we do not expect ignorant agents to behave randomly or always get things wrong. Instead, we expect them to act reasonably, guided by past experiences. We test whether 4-to-6-year-olds share this intuition and use it to infer others' knowledge, or whether they rely on a simple "ignorance = error" heuristic identified in past…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Expectation, Young Children, Inferences
