. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 13.

Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2004 Jan 1;50(1):86–109. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2004.0004

Table 4.

Mean Inference Criterion Scores by Age Group, With Standard Deviations in Parentheses

	Age group
Trait	Children	Adolescents	Adults
Tendency to make inferences about competence
Nice	.96 (.14)	.76 (.36)	.48 (.38)
Mean	.66 (.38)	.26 (.36)	.22 (.36)
Smart	.99 (.09)	.90 (.20)	.65 (.38)
Not smart	.74 (.37)	.46 (.43)	.33 (.36)
Tendency to make inferences across situations
Nice	.82 (.27)	.54 (.35)	.48 (.35)
Mean	.44 (.34)	.24 (.29)	.41 (.36)
Smart	.79 (.25)	.52 (.38)	.61 (.30)
Not smart	.56 (.34)	.22 (.29)	.52 (.32)

Note: Inference criterion scores ranged from 0 to 1, with 0 indicating that no trait inferences would be made.