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Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

2020-03-27

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Among humans, simply looking at infants can activate affiliative and nurturant behaviors. However, it remains unknown whether mere exposure to infants also activates other aspects of the caregiving motivational system, such as generalized defensiveness in the absence of immediate threats. Here, we demonstrate that simply viewing faces of infants (especially from the ingroup) may heighten vigilance against social t...

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Literature Corpus work: 3177f99f-a9a1-5c7e-bb55-cfecbabbdb19
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202002.0361.v2

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