Infants prefer to imitate a reliable person

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-309

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Brooker, Ivy ^a   Polonia, Alexandra ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imitation; Infants; Reliability; Social learning; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUST;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST;

EID: 79957709096     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 01636383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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