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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Infant Cognition

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  • Infants can assess agents by their actions.
  • Previous research indicates infants evaluate distributive actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if infants' evaluations of distributive actions consider agent intentions or only outcomes.
  • To investigate the basis of infant social evaluations in resource allocation scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Ten-month-old infants observed animated scenarios of resource distribution failures.
  • Infants' attention was measured by viewing times towards specific test events.

Main Results:

  • Infants attended longer to a third agent approaching a distributor who failed to make an unequal distribution.
  • This contrasts with shorter attention to a distributor who failed to make an equal distribution.

Conclusions:

  • Infants' encoding of distributive actions includes the distributors' intentions, not solely the outcomes.
  • This suggests early-developing social cognition involves inferring intentions from action failures.