Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-39

  Hamlin, J Kiley ^a   Wynn, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Social cognition; Social evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951513533     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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