Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions
We report evidence that 29-month-old toddlers and 10-month-old preverbal infants discriminate between two agents: a pro-social agent, who performs a positive (comforting) action on a human patient and a negative (harmful) action on an inanimate object, and an anti-social agent, who does the converse...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088612 |
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author | Buon, Marine Jacob, Pierre Margules, Sylvie Brunet, Isabelle Dutat, Michel Cabrol, Dominique Dupoux, Emmanuel |
author_facet | Buon, Marine Jacob, Pierre Margules, Sylvie Brunet, Isabelle Dutat, Michel Cabrol, Dominique Dupoux, Emmanuel |
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description | We report evidence that 29-month-old toddlers and 10-month-old preverbal infants discriminate between two agents: a pro-social agent, who performs a positive (comforting) action on a human patient and a negative (harmful) action on an inanimate object, and an anti-social agent, who does the converse. The evidence shows that they prefer the former to the latter even though the agents perform the same bodily movements. Given that humans can cause physical harm to their conspecifics, we discuss this finding in light of the likely adaptive value of the ability to detect harmful human agents. |
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spelling | pubmed-39295262014-02-25 Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions Buon, Marine Jacob, Pierre Margules, Sylvie Brunet, Isabelle Dutat, Michel Cabrol, Dominique Dupoux, Emmanuel PLoS One Research Article We report evidence that 29-month-old toddlers and 10-month-old preverbal infants discriminate between two agents: a pro-social agent, who performs a positive (comforting) action on a human patient and a negative (harmful) action on an inanimate object, and an anti-social agent, who does the converse. The evidence shows that they prefer the former to the latter even though the agents perform the same bodily movements. Given that humans can cause physical harm to their conspecifics, we discuss this finding in light of the likely adaptive value of the ability to detect harmful human agents. Public Library of Science 2014-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3929526/ /pubmed/24586355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088612 Text en © 2014 Buon et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Buon, Marine Jacob, Pierre Margules, Sylvie Brunet, Isabelle Dutat, Michel Cabrol, Dominique Dupoux, Emmanuel Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title | Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title_full | Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title_fullStr | Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title_full_unstemmed | Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title_short | Friend or Foe? Early Social Evaluation of Human Interactions |
title_sort | friend or foe? early social evaluation of human interactions |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088612 |
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