Reasoning about ‘irrational’ actions: When intentional movements cannot be explained, the movements themselves are seen as the goal
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Reasoning about 'irrational' actions: when intentional movements cannot be explained, the movements themselves are seen as the goal.
Infants and adults are thought to infer the goals of observed actions by calculating the actions' efficiency as a means to particular external effects, like reaching an object or location. However, many intentional actions lack an external effect or external goal (e.g. dance). We show that for these actions, adults infer that the agents' goal is to produce the movements themselves: Movements ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.006