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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Children help with box | ||
| Old-FB | A | B | B |
| Old-TB | A | A | A |
| New-FB | C | C | B |
| New-TB | C | C | C |
