title: Eighteen-Month-Olds, but not 14-Month-Olds, Use Social Context to Bind Action Sequences.
abstract: We demonstrate that 18-month-olds, but not 14-month-olds, can anticipate others' actions based on an interpretation of shared goals that bind together individual actions into a collaborative sequence. After viewing a sequence of actions performed by two people who socially interact, 18-month-olds bound together the socially engaged actors' actions such that they later expected the actors to share the same final goal. Eighteen-month-olds who saw nonsocially engaged actors did not have this expectation and neither did 14-month-olds when viewing either socially or nonsocially engaged actors. The results are discussed in light of the possibility that experience in collaborations could be necessary for understanding collaboration from a third-person perspective.
authors.affiliation: Uppsala Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fawcett
authors.affiliation: Uppsala Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University.
authors.forename: Gustaf
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gredebäck