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    "pk": 28676,
    "title": "Observing child-led exploration improves parents’ causal inferences",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Do children’s flexible causal inferences promote more cre-ative causal discovery for observing adults? Inspired by a taskin which children are more likely to consider unconventionalcausal forms (Lucas, Bridgers, Griffiths, & Gopnik, 2014;Wente et al., 2019), we designed a new method in which child-adult pairs work together to solve a causal task and assessedthe relative influence of each member of the pair on the other’scausal inference. Consistent with previous research, childrenwere better than parents at learning the unusual conjunctive re-lationship, suggesting that children make more flexible causalinferences than adults. Our research also revealed a surpris-ing and new result – that observing a child explore broadlyhelped parents to be more flexible and open-minded in theircausal learning. In contrast, a child observing an adult’s ex-ploratory interventions had no negative consequence on thechild’s ability to infer the correct relation. Follow-up exper-iments explored the degree to which this child-led bootstrap-ping for adults was due to the particular exploratory evidencegenerated by the child during play, or merely the presence ofa child. Results suggest that both factors may play a role inshaping adult’s causal inferences.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "causality"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cognitive Development"
        },
        {
            "word": "parent-child in-teraction"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61h741kp",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Koeun",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Choi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Virginia Tech",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Milagros",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grados",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bonawitz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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