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Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others

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Significance Despite decades of research on the development of social knowledge, few experiments have tested how infants learn about new individuals from the behavior of their caregivers. Here, we show… Click to show full abstract

Significance Despite decades of research on the development of social knowledge, few experiments have tested how infants learn about new individuals from the behavior of their caregivers. Here, we show that infants learn who is a potential social partner by observing their parents’ interactions with previously unknown individuals.

Keywords: partners observing; social partners; observing interactions; infer potential; infants infer; potential social

Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Year Published: 2022

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