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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Main Authors: Francys Subiaul, Jennifer Vonk, M D Rutherford
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a3840f14f31143a8960bf18b18c9262b
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