Journal
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 30-39Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.09.001
Keywords
Social cognition; Social evaluation; Infancy
Funding
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH081877] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH081877, R01 MH081877-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
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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 et al. (2007), somewhat younger subjects, and 2 additional social scenarios, we replicated the findings that (a) infants prefer those who behave prosocially versus antisocially, and (b) these preferences are based on the social nature of the actions. The generality of infants' responses across multiple examples of prosocial and antisocial actions supports the claim that social evaluation is fundamental to perceiving the world. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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