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Agency Attribution in Infancy: Evidence for a Negativity Bias

Adults tend to attribute agency and intention to the causes of negative outcomes, even if those causes are obviously mechanical. Is this over-attribution of negative agency the result of years of practice with attributing agency to actual conspecifics, or is it a foundational aspect of our agency-de...

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Autores principales: Hamlin, J. Kiley, Baron, Andrew S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24801144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096112