Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions

Eunice Yiu, Kelsey Allen, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik

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10.1098/rsta.2025.0003
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2026-05-14
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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The Royal Society
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@article{allodium:10.1098/rsta.2025.0003,
  title = {Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions},
  author = {Eunice Yiu and Kelsey Allen and Shiry Ginosar and Alison Gopnik},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  doi = {10.1098/rsta.2025.0003},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2025.0003}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions
AU  - Eunice Yiu
AU  - Kelsey Allen
AU  - Shiry Ginosar
AU  - Alison Gopnik
PY  - 2026
JO  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
DO  - 10.1098/rsta.2025.0003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2025.0003
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Yiu, E., Allen, K., Ginosar, S., & Gopnik, A. (2026). Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2025.0003

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