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Foundations of infants' social group evaluations
Authors:Anthea Pun  Matar Ferera  Gil Diesendruck  J. Kiley Hamlin  Andrew Scott Baron
Affiliation:1. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, Bar‐Ilan University, Ramat‐Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
Abstract:Previous research has suggested that infants exhibit a preference for familiar over unfamiliar social groups (e.g., preferring individuals from their own language group over individuals from a foreign language group). However, because past studies often employ forced‐choice procedures, it is not clear whether infants' intergroup preferences are driven by positivity toward members of familiar groups, negativity toward members of unfamiliar groups, or both. Across six experiments, we implemented a habituation procedure to independently measure infants' positive and negative evaluations of speakers of familiar and unfamiliar languages. We report that by 1 year of age, infants positively evaluate individuals who speak a familiar language, but do not negatively evaluate individuals who speak an unfamiliar language (Experiments 1 and 2). Several experiments rule out lower‐level explanations (Experiments 3–6). Together these data suggest that children's early social group preferences may be shaped by positive evaluations of familiar group(s), rather than negative evaluations of unfamiliar groups.
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