Detecting the causal relations among environmental events is an important facet of learning.
Certain variables have been identified which influence both human causal attribution and …

Across two studies, we explored cultural differences in children's imitation and transmission
of inefficient actions. Chinese American and Caucasian American preschoolers (N= 115) …

Three experiments examined whether children and adults would use temporal information
as a cue to the causal structure of a three-variable system, and also whether their …

Examined developmental differences in the use of distinctiveness, consensus, and
consistency information for making causal attributions. 144 1st, 3rd and 6th graders and …

In the absence of information on the spatio-temporal relations between causes and effects,
children between 6 and 12 years of age attributed the effects to similar, as opposed to …

One tific of the reasons there are so many approaches to studies of scienreasoning is not
necessarily because researchers disagree about what constitutes sound scientific reasoning …

Three experiments examined children's and adults' abilities to use statistical and temporal
information to distinguish between common cause and causal chain structures. In …

This study examined how rumors originating in 3-to 6-year-olds' causal inferences can affect
their own and their peers' memories for a personally experienced event. This was …

Children seem to learn about the causal structure of the world even in the absence of formal
training. One possibility is that children can learn causal relationships from evidence …

Understanding complex systems requires reasoning about causal relationships that behave
or appear to behave probabilistically. Features such as distributed agency, large spatial …