Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action

Humans explain and predict other agents' behavior using mental state concepts, such as beliefs and desires. Computational and developmental evidence suggest that such inferences are enabled by a principle of rational action: the expectation that agents act efficiently, within situational constr...

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Main Authors: Gweon, Hyowon (Author), Jara-Ettinger, Julian (Contributor), Tenenbaum, Joshua B (Contributor), Schulz, Laura E (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Schulz, Laura, E. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2018-01-16T18:22:14Z.
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