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A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences
2009
Developmental Psychology
Preschoolers' causal learning from intentional actions -causal interventions -is subject to a selfagency bias. We propose that this bias is evidence-based; it is responsive to causal uncertainty. In the current studies, two causes (one child-controlled, one experimenter-controlled) were associated with one or two effects, first independently, then simultaneously. When initial independent effects were probabilistic, and thus subsequent simultaneous actions were causally ambiguous, children
doi:10.1037/a0014727
pmid:19271843
pmcid:PMC3689272
fatcat:7nya4jwfdreyxatbypcqo64hwq