Abstract
There is growing evidence that infants display preferences for prosocial agents. However, recent studies have reported conflicting results about the impact of appearance on these preferences. The c...
Highlights
In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in infants’ ability to produce sociomoral evaluations
A secondary aim of this study was to compare visual preferences measured during the scenario and in the subsequent test phase, the assumption being that the former measure might prove more sensitive
Regarding aspects of behavior, our findings showed that infants exhibited a visual preference for the game-player over the game-breaker when the two interacted with a central partner
Summary
There has been increasing interest in infants’ ability to produce sociomoral evaluations. A spontaneous tendency to prefer prosocial behavior has been observed in infants aged between 3 and 36 months, when they are exposed to a variety of competing social scenarios: helping versus hindering agents (e.g., involved in climbing a hill or opening a box); comforting versus threatening agents; fairly acting versus unfairly acting agents; or game-playing versus game-breaking agents (Holvoet et al, 2016a). In these studies, infants’ preferences for prosocial agents were demonstrated through their reaching behavior (Buon et al, 2014; Burns & Sommerville, 2014; Geraci & Surian, 2011; Hamlin & Wynn, 2011; Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom, 2007; Scola, Holvoet, Arciszewski, & Picard, 2015)
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