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ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2024

Toddlers Prefer Agents Who Help Those Facing Harder Tasks.

Brandon M Woo, Shari Liu, Hyowon Gweon, Elizabeth S Spelke

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Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Infants use helping to infer the existence and strength of caring relationships.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Toddlers expect ingroup loyalty to override personal preferences when outgroups are present.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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Brandon M WooDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8639-2919
Shari LiuDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hyowon GweonDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Elizabeth S SpelkeDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Capacities to understand and evaluate others' actions are fundamental to human social life. Infants and toddlers are sensitive to the costs of others' actions, infer others' values from the costs of the actions they take, and prefer those who help others to those who hinder them, but it is largely unknown whether and how cost considerations inform early understanding of third-party prosocial actions. In three experiments (

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action understandingcognitive developmenthelpingsocial cognitiontoddlerhood

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