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    "pk": 26769,
    "title": "Preschoolers evaluate risk and reward in exploration-exploitation tasks",
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    "abstract": "Children are drivers of their own discovery. To develop a complete characterization of the factors that drive explo-ration in early childhood, we must first understand how competing factors influence children’s decision making. We investigatedpreschool-aged children’s decision-making on explore-exploit tasks where the available information about the distribution ofrewards was controlled. When probability information is unknown, children preferred to exploit known rewards over exploringunknown ones. However, performance in Experiment 2 shows that children can use probabilistic information to form accurateexpectations about possible outcomes to effectively choose between exploiting and exploring. The degree to which individ-ual children are “exploratory” is also shown to be consistent over weeks, suggesting that individual children have “trait-like”exploratory drives. On aggregate, children incorporate these individual tendencies towards exploration or exploitation withprobability information; thus children readily form estimations of expected reward and use this information to guide efficientexploratory behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "section": "Member Abstracts",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jc8404g",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lapidow",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "Baraff",
            "last_name": "Bonawitz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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