Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others
<jats:p>Infants are born into networks of individuals who are socially connected. How do infants begin learning which individuals are their own potential social partners? Using digitally edited videos, we showed 12-mo-old infants’ social interactions between unknown individuals and their own p...
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| author | Thomas, Ashley J Saxe, Rebecca Spelke, Elizabeth S |
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| description | <jats:p>Infants are born into networks of individuals who are socially connected. How do infants begin learning which individuals are their own potential social partners? Using digitally edited videos, we showed 12-mo-old infants’ social interactions between unknown individuals and their own parents. In studies 1 to 4, after their parent showed affiliation toward one puppet, infants expected that puppet to engage with them. In study 5, infants made the reverse inference; after a puppet engaged with them, the infants expected that puppet to respond to their parent. In each study, infants’ inferences were specific to social interactions that involved their own parent as opposed to another infant’s parent. Thus, infants combine observation of social interactions with knowledge of their preexisting relationship with their parent to discover which newly encountered individuals are potential social partners for themselves and their families.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1500782024-01-22T21:19:27Z Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others Thomas, Ashley J Saxe, Rebecca Spelke, Elizabeth S Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines <jats:p>Infants are born into networks of individuals who are socially connected. How do infants begin learning which individuals are their own potential social partners? Using digitally edited videos, we showed 12-mo-old infants’ social interactions between unknown individuals and their own parents. In studies 1 to 4, after their parent showed affiliation toward one puppet, infants expected that puppet to engage with them. In study 5, infants made the reverse inference; after a puppet engaged with them, the infants expected that puppet to respond to their parent. In each study, infants’ inferences were specific to social interactions that involved their own parent as opposed to another infant’s parent. Thus, infants combine observation of social interactions with knowledge of their preexisting relationship with their parent to discover which newly encountered individuals are potential social partners for themselves and their families.</jats:p> 2023-03-31T14:30:20Z 2023-03-31T14:30:20Z 2022 2023-03-31T14:22:50Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150078 Thomas, Ashley J, Saxe, Rebecca and Spelke, Elizabeth S. 2022. "Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (32). en 10.1073/PNAS.2121390119 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS |
| spellingShingle | Thomas, Ashley J Saxe, Rebecca Spelke, Elizabeth S Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title | Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title_full | Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title_fullStr | Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title_short | Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| title_sort | infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150078 |
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