Children and adults can suspend core principles about objects and agents given a small amount of counterevidence on screen.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12804722 · PMID 41390796

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Participants were more likely to provide accept evidence explanations for agents than explain away explanations ( β = 1.48, p < .001) and pattern explanations (marginally significant: β = 0.79, p = .052), compared to objects, and they were less likely to provide explain away explanations for agents than other explanations, compared to objects ( β = -0.95, p = .005).

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