Human Infants' Learning of Social Structures: The Case of Dominance Hierarchy

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 250-255

  Mascaro, Olivier ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

cognitive development; infant development; naive sociology; social cognition; social dominance; social relations; social structure; structure learning; transitive reasoning

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84891943427     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613500509     Document Type: Article

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