Experiment Examines Infants' Abilities to Infer Social Relationships (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Experiment Examines Infants' Abilities to Infer Social Relationships

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University of Chicago researchers measured nine-month-old infants' abilities to reason about social relationships by studying their responses to videos of people interacting as friends or foes. Babies look longer at something unexpected.

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Zoe Liberman

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