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Geraci, Alessandra; Simion, Francesca – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This research investigated whether the perception of social-causal relation alone triggers both infants' evaluation processes and expectations about the social preferences of informed third parties. Three experiments were carried out, using the violation of expectation (VoE) paradigm. During the familiarization phase, infants saw events in which…
Descriptors: Infants, Prosocial Behavior, Evaluation, Expectation
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Sanefuji, Wakako; Wada, Kazuko; Yamamoto, Tomoka; Mohri, Ikuko; Taniike, Masako – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Previous studies have proposed that humans may be born with mechanisms that attend to conspecifics. However, as previous studies have relied on stimuli featuring human adults, it remains unclear whether infants attend only to adult humans or to the entire human species. We found that 1-month-old infants (n = 23) were able to differentiate between…
Descriptors: Infants, Age Differences, Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli