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  • How do young learners decide when and how to try in challenging situations? Lucca et al. find that infants dynamically integrate first-hand experience with social information to selectively persist when their hard work is likely to pay off.

    • Kelsey Lucca
    • Rachel Horton
    • Jessica A. Sommerville
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 4, P: 372-379

  • Optimism declines across early childhood, but there is no theoretical account for why such changes occur. In this Perspective, Leonard and Sommerville discuss and integrate three candidate causes for age-related declines in optimism: learning from experience, theory development and valenced learning biases.

    • Julia A. Leonard
    • Jessica A. Sommerville
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 4, P: 35-48