Colaughter and Infants (IMAGE)

New York University

Colaughter and Infants

Caption

The researchers linked visual depictions of friends and strangers to their colaughter in order to determine if the infants could tie colaughter to judgments about human relationships. Infants saw two types of video clips of actors interacting: in one, two women faced and smiled at each other, as if they were friends (A); in another, the two women turned their backs to each other, indicating that they were strangers (B).

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Athena Vouloumanos, NYU's Department of Psychology

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