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Luo Y, Baillargeon R. Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants. Psychol Sci. 2005;16(8):601-8doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x.
Luo, Y., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants. Psychological science, 16(8), 601-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x
Luo, Yuyan, and Baillargeon, Renée. "Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants." Psychological science vol. 16,8 (2005): 601-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x
Luo Y, Baillargeon R. Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants. Psychol Sci. 2005 Aug;16(8):601-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x. PMID: 16102062; PMCID: PMC3351378.
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Psychol Sci. 2005 Aug;16(8):601-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x.

Can a self-propelled box have a goal? Psychological reasoning in 5-month-old infants.

Psychological science

Yuyan Luo, Renée Baillargeon

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  1. Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, 61820, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 16102062 PMCID: PMC3351378 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01582.x

Abstract

Some researchers have suggested that infants' ability to reason about goals develops as a result of their experiences with human agents and is then gradually extended to other agents. Other researchers have proposed that goal attribution is rooted in a specialized system of reasoning that is activated whenever infants encounter entities with appropriate features (e.g., self-propulsion). The first view predicts that young infants should attribute goals to human but not other agents; the second view predicts that young infants should attribute goals to both human and nonhuman agents. The present research revealed that 5-month-old infants (the youngest found thus far to attribute goals to human agents) also attribute goals to nonhuman agents. In two experiments, infants interpreted the actions of a self-propelled box as goal-directed. These results provide support for the view that from an early age, infants attribute goals to any entity they identify as an agent.

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