Infants Understand that More Desirable Rewards Require More Effort (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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In the study by Liu et al., an animated character (agent) decides which object (target) is more desirable. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 24 November 2017 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Liu at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions."

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S. Liu <i>et al., Science</i> (2017)

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