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If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: Preverbal Infants Expect Novel Agents to Choose the Majority Group

2026-03-06

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<p>Society is characterized by negotiation of group interests, often favoring stronger majority groups. Preverbal infants expect members of larger coalitions will prevail in concrete conflicts, but it remains unknown if infants parse the social world by ascribing general default coalitional formidability motives to others, even in the absence of intergroup conflict. Here we show that 9–13-month-old Norwegian infan...

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Literature Corpus work: 5b1175f3-ae57-52eb-bc78-2bb7332ae46a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8uvh3_v4

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