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    "title": "Young children adapt their search behavior for necessary versus merely possible outcomes",
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    "abstract": "Although even infants appear to consider multiple possibilities, preschoolers often fail tasks that require reasoning about mutually exclusive alternatives. We review two explanations for this failure: (1) children have a minimal representation of possibility and fail to distinguish necessary from merely possible outcomes; and (2) children are sensitive to this distinction, but competing motivations (e.g., the tendency to explore) can lead to apparent failures. To test these hypotheses, we assessed 3- and 4-year-olds on a novel search task. Here, children searched for an object that was dropped from either a transparent (one necessary location) or opaque (two possible locations) set of inverted Y-shaped tubes. In Exp. 1, we found that children spent less time searching the first location when there were two possible candidates. Exp. 2 replicates these results in a digital task that does not require manual search.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Reasoning; Representation; Knowledge representation"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Luisa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Andreuccioli",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
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            "first_name": "Sophie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mazor",
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            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
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            "institution": "University of Copenhagen",
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            "last_name": "Bonawitz",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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            "last_name": "Denison",
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            "institution": "University of Waterloo",
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            "first_name": "Caren",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Walker",
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            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T19:00:00+01:00",
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