The ghosts in the computer: the role of agency and animacy attributions in "ghost controls".
Three studies evaluated the role of 4-year-old children's agency- and animacy-attributions when learning from a computerized ghost control (GC). In GCs, participants observe events occurring without an apparent agent, as if executed by a "ghost" or unobserved causal forces. Using a to...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/a3840f14f31143a8960bf18b18c9262b |
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