Imagine the following scenario (inspired by true events): We are grocery shopping with our
friend Anita, who notices a woman down the aisle and waves and smiles at her. The woman …

The present study tested 14‐month‐old monolingual infants (N= 64, 52% female, 75%
Korean, and 25% American) in a looking‐time task adapted from previous referent …

Choices between immediate gratification and long-term (but larger) gains are prevalent in
human life, which is why the decision-making processes to delay gratification have been …

Prior work suggests children understand how speech conveys information and influences
others' minds. Although these studies have focused on communication under ideal …

Pragmatic theories assume that during communicative exchanges humans strive to be
optimally informative and spontaneously adjust their communicative signals to satisfy their …

To make sense of others' actions, we generally consider what information is available to
them. This information may come from different sources, including perception and inference …

Humans have an intuitive sense of what others know and how they learned it. These
expectations are often latent, but violating them can elicit surprise and curiosity (eg, a …

The current replication crisis in experimental psychology has called into question findings
regarding infants' early false-belief understanding. It is, however, debated whether non …

Prior work demonstrates an early-emerging understanding of how speakers can alter
listeners' minds and actions. Yet, an abstract understanding of communication entails more …

Communication is based on social interaction, that is, interlocutors sharing attention to the
intentions that they communicate about. In this study, we asked whether infants are aware of …