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Infants' recognition of social conventions

2025-05-13

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<p>From early in life, humans expect members of the same social group to act like one another. What drives this expectation? Across two experiments, we investigated how 8- and 9-month-old infants’ (N = 100) expectations about shared behaviors align with accounts based on collective identities, ritualistic actions, or conventions. In Experiment 1, infants inferred that an action would generalize to a new group memb...

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Literature Corpus work: c59b7298-4f76-5ab2-9205-e80c2db74c08
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ufkcp_v1

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