@article {5293,
	title = {Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others},
	journal = {Child Development},
	year = {2023},
	month = {02/2023},
	abstract = {<p>Why do infants and toddlers prefer helpers? Four experiments (conducted from 2019{\textendash}2022; n = 136, 66\% White, 15\% Asian, 4\% Black, 2\% Hispanic/Latino, 13\% multiracial, majority USA) investigated whether infants and toddlers favor agents whose actions allow others to achieve their goals. In the key experiment, 8-month-old infants and 15-month-old toddlers viewed a protagonist who tried and failed to open a box that contained a toy while two other agents (helpers) observed; then the toys were exchanged and the helpers opened different boxes. Infants and toddlers differently evaluated the two helpers, consistent with their developing means-end understanding. Together, the present four experiments connect infants{\textquoteright} and toddlers{\textquoteright} evaluations of helping to their understanding of goal-directed behavior.</p>
},
	issn = {0009-3920},
	doi = {10.1111/cdev.13895},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13895},
	author = {Woo, Brandon M. and Spelke, Elizabeth S.}
}
