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Nine-Months-Old Infants Do Not Need to Know What the Agent Prefers in Order to Reason about Its Goals: On the Role of Preference and Persistence in Infants' Goal-Attribution
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Hernik, Mikolaj; Southgate, Victoria – Developmental Science, 2012
Human infants readily interpret others' actions as goal-directed and their understanding of previous goals shapes their expectations about an agent's future goal-directed behavior in a changed situation. According to a recent proposal (Luo & Baillargeon, 2005), infants' goal-attributions are not sufficient to support such expectations if the…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Expectation, Goal Orientation
Theories, Evidence and Intuitions about Infants' Attributions of Goals: A Reply to Commentaries by Biro and Kuhlmeier & Robson and Luo & Choi
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Hernik, Mikolaj; Southgate, Victoria – Developmental Science, 2012
This reply article is to be published alongside: Hernik, M., & Southgate, V. (2012). This is a response to the commentaries on Hernik and Southgate (2012) by Biro (2012), Kuhlmeier and Robson (2012) and Luo and Choi (2012). Both L&C and K&R reject the authors' conclusion that an absence of a Woodward-effect in some single-object versions of the…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Expectation, Goal Orientation
Infants Attribute to Agents Goals and Dispositions
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Luo, Yuyan; Choi, You-jung – Developmental Science, 2012
This commentary article is to be published alongside: Hernik, M., & Southgate, V. (2012). What do infants know about agents' goals? The authors see this issue consisting of two closely related questions. First, what is an agent to infants? Second, how do infants attribute goals to agents? Hernik and Southgage (H&S) focused on the second question.…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Goal Orientation, Preferences