Who knows what's good to eat? Infants fail to match the food preferences of antisocial others

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-239

  Hamlin, J Kiley ^a   Wynn, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Negativity bias; Social evaluation; Social learning imitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863831345     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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