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Direct linkGoldwater, Micah B.; Gershman, Samuel J.; Moul, Caroline; Ludowici, Charles; Burton, Amy; Killer, Brittany; Kuhnert, Rebecca-Lee; Ridgway, Kate – Developmental Science, 2020
Research into the development of Theory of Mind (ToM) has shown how children from a very early age infer other people's goals. However, human behaviour is sometimes driven not by plans to achieve goals, but by habits, which are formed over long periods of reinforcement. Habitual and goal-directed behaviours are often aligned with one another but…
Descriptors: Children, Theory of Mind, Habit Formation, Goal Orientation
