Attribution of Dispositional States by 12-Month-Olds
通过三个实验发现，12个月大的婴儿不仅能识别目标导向行为，还能根据之前在其他情境中观察到的行为来推断行动者未来的行动，并讨论了这种推断是否涉及心理状态归因。
The ability to interpret the behavior of other individuals is essential for effective social functioning. Many investigators now believe that even young infants can recognize that agents act toward goals. Here we report three experiments suggesting that 12-month-old infants not only can recognize goal-related action, but also can interpret future actions of an actor on the basis of previously witnessed behavior in another context. The possibility that this inference is made through the attribution of mental states is discussed.