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    "pk": 29902,
    "title": "Certain to be surprised:A preference for novel causal outcomes develops in early childhood",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "A large literature on the development of causal reasoningcharacterizes early childhood as a period of curiosity,exploration, and experimentation. This suggests that a noveltypreference may be a universal hallmark of early causallearning. Functionally, such a bias might serve to directattention towards new opportunities for knowledge gain. Analternative possibility is that a preference for exploring noveloutcomes develops over time. In three experiments with 2- to5-year-olds, we investigate the developmental trajectory ofchildren’s preference for causal processes that producereliable versus novel outcomes. We find evidence for adevelopmental shift between ages 2 and 3: while two-year-olds trend toward a preference for reliable over noveloutcomes, older children clearly prefer novel ones. Wediscuss possible adaptive reasons for this developmental shift.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cognitive development; causal learning;exploration; novelty; determinism"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 2",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bx7d65x",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mariel",
            "middle_name": "K.",
            "last_name": "Goddu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Caren",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Walker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}