Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

Symptoms of common mental health problems often pertain to complex inference and decision problems (for example around future social interactions). Such patterns may reflect the breakdown of the ...

The ability to infer character from behavior is an essential skill that adults use to navigate the social world. We investigated 12- to 24-month-old infants’ (Experiment 1, n = 160; Experiment 2, n = ...