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    "pk": 27993,
    "title": "Children Use Probability to Infer Other People’s Happiness",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The ability to infer other people’s emotions is an important\naspect of children’s social cognition. Here, we examined\nwhether 4- to 6-year-olds use probability to infer other\npeople’s happiness. Children saw a scenario where a girl\nreceives two desired and two undesired gumballs from a\ngumball machine and were asked to rate how the girl feels\nabout this outcome. Children either saw the gumballs come\nfrom a machine that had mostly desired gumballs or a\nmachine that had mostly undesired gumballs. Five- and 6-\nyear-olds rated the girl as being happier when the gumballs\ncame from a machine that had mostly undesired gumballs.\nFour-year-olds, on the other hand, rated the girl’s happiness\nsimilarly regardless of whether the machine held mostly\ndesired or undesired gumballs. These findings show that by\nthe age of 5, children use probability to infer happiness.\nFurther, they demonstrate that children understand that our\nhappiness with an outcome depends on whether a better or\nworse outcome was initially more likely.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "emotion attribution; happiness; probability; social\ncognition; cognitive development"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ns3493f",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tiffany",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Doan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Waterloo",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ori",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Friedman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UWaterloo",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stephanie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Denison",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UWaterloo",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}