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Sep 2026
Children's exploration distinguishes necessary and merely possible outcomes.
Preschoolers often fail tasks that require that they select between a necessary and a merely possible outcome. Prior work has interpreted these failures as evidence that children hold a minimal representation of possibility or as reflecting performance factors. However, all previous paradigms have operationalized child...
Luisa Andreuccioli, Sophie Mazor, Katarina Begus et al.
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