ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2026
Eleven-Month-Old Infants Preferentially Look at Helpers But Do Not Reliably Evaluate Inconsistent Actors.
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Developmental psychology has provided some evidence that infants evaluate agents who engage in prosocial and antisocial acts: Infants selectively reach for and look at those who have treated third parties prosocially versus antisocially. This previous work has tended to present infants with actors whose behaviors are entirely prosocial or entirely antisocial. Studies introducing even minor variation into an actor's behaviors have yielded null results with infants in the first year of life, suggesting that infants find it difficult to evaluate others who behave even mildly inconsistently. That said, it may be that past studies were poorly designed to test infants' evaluations of inconsistent actors. The present, preregistered experiments further explored 11-month-old infants' (
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