Social Cognition

Infants understand that people act in order to achieve their goals, but how can they tell what goals people find worthwhile? Here, we explore the thesis that human infants solve this problem by building a mental model of action planning, taking into …

People have a common-sense notion of intelligence and use it to evaluate decisions and decision-makers. One can attribute intelligence by evaluating the strategy or the outcome of a goal-directed agent. We propose a model of intelligence attribution, …