Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults

Josephine Ross

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Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults

Josephine Ross

Psychology

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Do children and adults engage in spontaneous Theory of Mind (ToM)? Accumulating evidence from anticipatory looking (AL) studies suggests that they do. But a growing body of studies failed to replicate these original findings. This paper presents the first step of a large-scale multi-lab collaboration dedicated to testing the robustness of spontaneous ToM measures. It examines whether 18-27-month-olds and adults’ anticipatory looks distinguish between knowledgeable and ignorant agents. In a pre-registered study with toddlers [anticipated N = 440, 50% female] and adults [anticipated N = 360, 50% female] from diverse ethnic backgrounds, we found that [DESCRIBE RESULT AND EFFECT SIZE FOR MAIN CONFIRMATORY ANALYSIS]. This provides [SUPPORT/SOME SUPPORT/NO SUPPORT] for spontaneous, epistemic state-based action anticipation in an AL paradigm.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	OSF Preprints
Publisher	PsyArXiv
Number of pages	79
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x4jbm
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2022

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