Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 923-929

  Kiley Hamlin, J ^a   Wynn, Karen ^a   Bloom, Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EYE FIXATION; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78049289942     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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