Infants’ Understanding of Goal Representations Within Close Relationships
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: To maintain and develop close relationships, people often need to represent the minds of their social partners. A growing body of research suggests that children have an intuitive theory of social relationships that allows them to make sense of social behavior and infer how people will behave toward each other (Powell, 2022; Thomas et al., 2022). Here, we ask: Does infants’ theory of relationships include the intuition that people in close relationships will know each other’s goals and desires? Specifically, the present experiments seek to shed light on whether 12- to 14-month-old infants infer that agents who engage in close physical contact are likely to help each other achieve their goals, even without having observed each other act on their goals prior (at least, not in the presence of the infants).
Source: Open Science Framework
Authors: Woo, Brandon M., Yu, Emma, Thomas, Ashley J.
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7158608221