Young Children Use Statistical Sampling to Infer the Preferences of Other People

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1134-1140

  Kushnir, Tamar ^a   Xu, Fei ^b   Wellman, Henry M ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive development; infant cognition; intuitive psychology; probabilistic reasoning; social cognition; statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTUITION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; STATISTICS;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUITION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78149455295     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610376652     Document Type: Article

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