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June 20, 2026Open Access

Will They Get Along? An Online Replication of Infants' Expectations about Third Party Social Relationships Based on Language

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MSMikayla Stein

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Overview

Randomized trial examines infants' social expectations based on language in an online setting, suggesting reproducibility issues.

Key Points

  • The study aimed to investigate whether infants use language to infer third-party social relationships based on previous findings.
  • 8- to 14-month-old infants viewed videos of individuals speaking the same or different languages
  • Infants observed scenarios of individuals affiliating or disengaging
  • Study replicated a prior in-person experiment in an online format
  • No significant differences were observed in infants' expectations based on the language of the speakers
  • Findings did not replicate the conclusions of the 2017 study by Liberman et al.
  • Indicates challenges in reproducing in-person study findings in online formats

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Mikayla Stein (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a363326db0793dc1a5397fbhttps://doi.org/10.6082/heknk-0j441
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