Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions

Autor: Sylvie Margules, Dominique Cabrol, Isabelle Brunet, Michel Dutat, Marine Buon, Emmanuel Dupoux, Pierre Jacob
Přispěvatelé: Dynamique des capacités humaines et des conduites de santé (EPSYLON), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2014, s.p. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0088612⟩
PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 2, p e88612 (2014)
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088612⟩
Popis: International audience; We report evidence that 29-month-old toddlers and 10-month-old preverbal infants discriminate between two agents: a pro-social agent, who performs a positive (comforting) action on a human patient and a negative (harmful) action on an inanimate object, and an anti-social agent, who does the converse. The evidence shows that they prefer the former to the latter even though the agents perform the same bodily movements. Given that humans can cause physical harm to their conspecifics, we discuss this finding in light of the likely adaptive value of the ability to detect harmful human agents.
Databáze: OpenAIRE