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    "pk": 27281,
    "title": "Inferring Intentional Agents From Violation of Randomness",
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    "abstract": "Humans have a strong “cognitive compulsion” to infer in-tentional agents from violation of randomness and such anagency–nonrandomness link emerges early in development.In two studies, we directly quantified, formalized, and com-pared both ends of this link for the first time. In Experiment1, two groups of participants viewed the same 256 binary se-quences (e.g., AABAAABA) and classified each as generatedby agents/non-agents or by nonrandom/random processes. Wefound a strong correlation between two judgments: sequencesviewed as more agentive also tended to be judged as less ran-dom. In Experiment 2, another two groups were asked toproduce sequences that others might appreciate as agentive ornonrandom. Participant-generated sequences in the two con-ditions had a substantial overlap, indicating common guidingprinciples of agency and nonrandomness generation. Taken to-gether, the present studies provide evidence for a shared cog-nitive basis of agency detection and subjective randomness.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "agency; subjective randomness; agency–nonrandomness link; animate-inanimate distinction"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pb9s57j",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yuan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Meng",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Griffiths",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Fei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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