Synapse
⌘+K
Synapse
PulseExploreClubsResearchersJournals
Instagram
HomeClubsExplore
August 5, 2025

File Drawer Report: Infants’ Expectations for Mutual Affiliates

View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Authors

BPBill PepeLPLindsey J. Powell

Discussion

Loading...

Member takes

Overview

Experiment finds infants do not infer affiliation between mutual social agents based on imitation, suggesting limitations in their social reasoning.

Key Points

  • MAIN FINDING: Infants do not extend expectations of support to friends of friends based on social imitation.
  • KEY EVIDENCE: No evidence was found that infants used observations to infer affiliations between mutual social agents.
  • APPROACH: The study involved observing infants’ reactions to social interactions and their implications for inference.
  • SIGNIFICANCE: This research highlights a limitation in infants' cognitive abilities regarding social affiliations and connections.

Cite This Study

Pepe et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a0f99e6551bb0af8d141dhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nmswd_v1
View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Also Consider

Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

  1. 1Infants use helping to infer the existence and strength of caring relationships2025
  2. 2Infants make moral character inferences in multi-agent social interactions2026 · 2 citations
  3. 3Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions2025 · 4 citations
  4. 4Do Infants Use Others’ Emotions in Social Interactions to Individuate Agents?2024
  5. 5Eleven-Month-Old Infants Preferentially Look at Helpers But Do Not Reliably Incorporate Inconsistency Into Their Evaluations2025