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Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance
Social hierarchies are ubiquitous in all human relations since birth, but little is known about how they emerge during infancy. Previous studies have shown that infants can represent hierarchical relationships when they arise from the physical superiority of one agent over the other, but humans have...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245450 |
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author | Bas, Jesus Sebastian-Galles, Nuria |
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description | Social hierarchies are ubiquitous in all human relations since birth, but little is known about how they emerge during infancy. Previous studies have shown that infants can represent hierarchical relationships when they arise from the physical superiority of one agent over the other, but humans have the capacity to allocate social status in others through cues that not necessary entail agents’ physical formidability. Here we investigate infants’ capacity to recognize the social status of different agents when there are no observable cues of physical dominance. Our results evidence that a first presentation of the agents' social power when obtaining resources is enough to allow infants predict the outputs of their future. Nevertheless, this capacity arises later (at 18 month-olds but not at 15 month-olds) than showed in previous studies, probably due the increased complexity of the inferences needed to make the predictions. |
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spelling | pubmed-78753562021-02-19 Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance Bas, Jesus Sebastian-Galles, Nuria PLoS One Research Article Social hierarchies are ubiquitous in all human relations since birth, but little is known about how they emerge during infancy. Previous studies have shown that infants can represent hierarchical relationships when they arise from the physical superiority of one agent over the other, but humans have the capacity to allocate social status in others through cues that not necessary entail agents’ physical formidability. Here we investigate infants’ capacity to recognize the social status of different agents when there are no observable cues of physical dominance. Our results evidence that a first presentation of the agents' social power when obtaining resources is enough to allow infants predict the outputs of their future. Nevertheless, this capacity arises later (at 18 month-olds but not at 15 month-olds) than showed in previous studies, probably due the increased complexity of the inferences needed to make the predictions. Public Library of Science 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7875356/ /pubmed/33566835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245450 Text en © 2021 Bas, Sebastian-Galles http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bas, Jesus Sebastian-Galles, Nuria Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title | Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title_full | Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title_fullStr | Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title_full_unstemmed | Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title_short | Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
title_sort | infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33566835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245450 |
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