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    "pk": 27723,
    "title": "It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Casual Complexity",
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    "abstract": "Mechanistic complexity is an important property that affects\nhow we interact with and learn from artifacts. Previous\nresearch finds that children successfully detect complexity\ncontrasts when given information about the functions of simple\nand complex objects. However, do children spontaneously\nfavor relevant information about an object’s causal\nmechanisms and functions when trying to determine an\nobject’s complexity? In Study 1, 7–9-year-olds and adults, but\nnot 5–6-year-olds, favored relevant information (e.g., the\ndifficulty in fixing an object) over irrelevant information (e.g.,\nthe difficulty in spelling an object’s name) for making\ndeterminations of mechanistic complexity. Only in Study 2, in\nwhich the relevance contrasts were extreme, did the youngest\nage group favor relevant over irrelevant information. These\nresults suggest that the ability to detect which object properties\nimply complexity emerges in the early school years; young\nchildren may be misled by features that are not truly diagnostic\nof mechanistic complexity.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Casual complexity"
        },
        {
            "word": "Relevance"
        },
        {
            "word": "intuitive theories"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5g48r43m",
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        {
            "first_name": "Richard",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Ahl",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erika",
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            "last_name": "DeAngelis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Amherst College",
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        },
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            "first_name": "Auburn",
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            "last_name": "Stephenson",
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            "institution": "Boston College",
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        },
        {
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            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Joo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frank",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Keil",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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