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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Dev. 2017 Sep 13;46:69–78. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.08.002

Table 1. Predictions of BCT’s mentalizing hypothesis and our teleological alternative per condition.

Condition Procedure Predictions
Toy was in A, is now in B, never was in C. BCT’s mentalizing hypothesis Our teleological alternative
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E2 tries to open box		 Children help with box
Old-FB A B B
Old-TB A A A
New-FB C C B
New-TB C C C