Representation of stable social dominance relations by human infants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6862-6867

  Mascaro, Olivier ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Human evolution; Na ve sociology; Relational reasoning; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84860791173     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113194109     Document Type: Article

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