Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others
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Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others.
The current study replicates and extends the finding (Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom, 2007) that infants prefer individuals who act prosocially toward unrelated third parties over those who act antisocially. Using different stimuli from those used by Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom (2007), somewhat younger subjects, and 2 additional social scenarios, we replicated the findings that (a) infants prefer those who beha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Development
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0885-2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.09.001