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Kushnir, Tamar; Wellman, Henry M.; Gelman, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Preschoolers' causal learning from intentional actions--causal interventions--is subject to a self-agency bias. The authors propose that this bias is evidence-based, in other words, that it is responsive to causal uncertainty. In the current studies, two causes (one child controlled, one experimenter controlled) were associated with one or two…
Descriptors: Inferences, Preschool Children, Attribution Theory, Intervention

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