The choice is yours: Infants' expectations about an agent's future behavior based on taking and receiving actions.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: American Psychological Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0260564 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1939-0599 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00121649 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Dev Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Washington DC : American Psychological Association
      Original Publication: Richmond, Va., American Psychological Assn.
    • Subject Terms:
      Concept Formation* ; Social Perception* ; Visual Perception*; Choice Behavior ; Cognition ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Male
    • Abstract:
      Our social world is rich with information about other people's choices, which subsequently inform our inferences about their future behavior. For individuals socialized within the American cultural context, which places a high value on autonomy and independence, outcomes that are the result of an agent's own choices may hold more predictive value than similar outcomes that are the result of another person's choices. Across two experiments we test the ontogeny of this phenomenon; that is, whether infants are sensitive to the causal history associated with an agent's acquisition of an object. We demonstrate that on average, 12.5-month-old American infants view taking actions as a better indication of an agent's future behavior than are receiving actions. Furthermore, there were significant individual differences in the extent to which infants perceived object receipt to be indicative of future behavior. Specifically, the less autonomous infants were perceived to be (by their parents), socialized to be, and behaved, the more they viewed object receipt as indicative of future behavior. The results are discussed in terms of the role of individual and cultural experience in early understanding of intentional action. (PsycINFO Database Record
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    • Grant Information:
      International Ford Foundation; International Graduate Opportunity-Minority Advancement Program; International National Science Foundation; R01 HD076949 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; International National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20171229 Date Completed: 20181023 Latest Revision: 20240314
    • Publication Date:
      20240314
    • Accession Number:
      PMC5920768
    • Accession Number:
      10.1037/dev0000482
    • Accession Number:
      29283594