dc.contributor.author | Muentener, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Yang | |
dc.contributor.author | Schulz, Laura E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-11T15:28:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-11T15:28:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-11 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015-05 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0364-0213 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1551-6709 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113065 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 fixed, alternating order. The relationships were then changed in one of two ways. In the Deterministic condition, the event order changed (Event B preceded Event A); in the Probabilistic condition, the causal relationships changed (Cause A generated Effect B; Cause B generated Effect A). As intended, toddlers looked equally long at both changes (Experiment 1). We then introduced a previously unseen candidate cause. Toddlers looked longer at the appearance of a hand (Experiment 2) and novel agent (Experiment 3) in the Deterministic than the Probabilistic conditions, but looked equally long at novel non-agents (Experiment 4), suggesting that by 2 years of age, toddlers connect probabilistic events with unobserved agents. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award CCF-1231216) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Blackwell | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12309 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Prof. Shultz | en_US |
dc.title | The Invisible Hand: Toddlers Connect Probabilistic Events With Agentive Causes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Wu, Yang et al. “The Invisible Hand: Toddlers Connect Probabilistic Events With Agentive Causes.” Cognitive Science 40, 8 (October 2015): 1854–1876 © 2015 Cognitive Science Society, Inc | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Schulz, Laura, E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Wu, Yang | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Schulz, Laura E | |
dc.relation.journal | Cognitive Science | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Wu, Yang; Muentener, Paul; Schulz, Laura E. | en_US |
dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-4925 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |