ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
The case for social evaluation in preverbal infants: gazing toward one's goal drives infants' preferences for Helpers over Hinderers in the hill paradigm.
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- Generalizing across moral sub-domains: infants bidirectionally link fairness and unfairness to helping and hindering.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Infants' neural responses to helping and hindering scenarios.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Toddlers draw broad negative inferences from wrongdoers' moral violations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Do 15-month-old infants prefer helpers? A replication of HamlinRoyal Society open science · 2020Article
- Social evaluation and imitation of prosocial and antisocial agents in infants, children, and adults.PloS one · 2020Article
- Do Dogs Prefer Helpers in an Infant-Based Social Evaluation Task?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- How do infants and adults process communicative events in real time?Journal of experimental child psychology · 2018Article
- The Developmental Origins of the Social Brain: Empathy, Morality, and Justice.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- Response: Commentary: A construct divided: prosocial behavior as helping, sharing, and comforting subtypes.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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- The Development of Anthropomorphism in Interaction: Intersubjectivity, Imagination, and Theory of Mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Toddlers Selectively Help Fair Agents.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- The Origin of Social Evaluation, Social Eavesdropping, Reputation Formation, Image Scoring or What You Will.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- An Eye on Animacy and Intention.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The neuropsychology of infants' pro-social preferences.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2015Article
- Probing the Strength of Infants' Preference for Helpers over Hinderers: Two Replication Attempts of Hamlin and Wynn (2011).PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
In a 2007 empirical report, Hamlin, Wynn, and Bloom provided the first evidence that preverbal infants at 6 and at 10 months of age evaluate others on the basis of their helpful and unhelpful actions toward unknown third parties. In their "hill paradigm," a Climber puppet tried but failed to climb a steep hill, and was alternately bumped up the hill by the Helper and bumped down the hill by the Hinderer. After being habituated to these events, both 10- and 6-month-olds selectively reached for the Helper over the Hinderer. In response, Scarf et al. (2012b) provided evidence that rather than reflecting an early developing capacity for social evaluation, infants' choices in Hamlin et al. (2007) reflected low-level perceptual preferences whereby infants are drawn to any character who is associated with the Climber bouncing. The current studies represent an attempt to adjudicate between the social and perceptual accounts of infants' preferences for Helpers over Hinderers in the hill paradigm, by pitting a perceptual cue (e.g., bouncing) against a social cue (e.g., whether or not the Climber gazes toward his goal). Infants' patterns of preference across two experiments support the social account.
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