{"pk":25544,"title":"Beliefs about desires: Children’s understanding of how knowledge and preference\ninfluence choice.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Knowledgeable agents always choose what they like best,\nthus revealing their preferences. But naïve agents only choose\nwhat they believe they like best, and may end up disliking\ntheir choice. As such, sensitivity to an agent’s prior\nexperience is critical for interpreting their behavior. Here we\nshow that four- and five-year-olds expect knowledgeable\nagents, as compared to naïve agents, to have stable choices\nthat lead to higher rewards (Experiments 1 and 2).\nAdditionally, we show that four- and five-year-olds can infer\nwhich of two agents is naïve given information about the\nrewards they obtained and the stability of their choices\n(Experiments 3 and 4). These results show that young\nchildren understand that beliefs and desires are interconnected\nand that, in addition to having uncertainty about the world,\nagents can also be uncertain about their own desires","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Social Cognition; Theory of Mind"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v42v7w3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Julian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jara-Ettinger","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lydic","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"B","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25544/galley/15168/download/"}]}