Infants track action goals within and across agents.

By J. Buresh, A. Woodward. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Machine Theory of Mind (2018, background): “There is a wealth of evidence showing that this is a core component of our model from early infancy (Gergely et al., 1995; Woodward, 1998; 1999; Buresh & Woodward, 2007), and intelligent animals such as apes and corvids have been shown to have similar expectations about their conspeciﬁcs (Call &…”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, unknown): “Burghardt’s commentary confirms those suspicions: “Research over the last 40 years,” Burghardt writes, “has shown that Darwin actually underestimated the mentality of apes, for example, in tool making, numerosity, and communication.” Indeed, in many respects, the hypothesis we proposed in our target”
To belief or not belief: Children’s theory of mind (2014, background): “For instance, Sootsman Buresh and Woodward (2007) claim, ‘‘(i)t is an open question whether infants understand individual goals as mental states’’ (p. 310), Csibra (2008) interprets his findings into ‘‘goal prediction’’ as evidence for a teleological bias in infants, that is, that infants predict th”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “To examine this question, Buresh and Woodward (2007) conducted two-object experiments with 9- and 13- month-olds using toys from different taxonomic categories (a toy rocket and a toy animal).”
The Development of Fairness Expectations and Prosocial Behavior in the Second Year of Life (2013, background): “…prior work suggesting a transition in infants’ expectations regarding resource distribution between 10 and 16 months of age (Geraci & Surian, 2011), and given emerg- ing evidence suggesting that infants may begin to understand conventional acts at about this age (Sootsman-Buresh & Woodward, 2007).”