Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance

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• dc.contributor.author Bas, Jesús, 1990-
• dc.contributor.author Sebastián Gallés, Núria
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-29T08:32:40Z
• dc.date.available 2021-03-29T08:32:40Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract Social hierarchies are ubiquitous in all human relations since birth, but little is known about how they emerge during infancy. Previous studies have shown that infants can represent hierarchical relationships when they arise from the physical superiority of one agent over the other, but humans have the capacity to allocate social status in others through cues that not necessary entail agents’ physical formidability. Here we investigate infants’ capacity to recognize the social status of different agents when there are no observable cues of physical dominance. Our results evidence that a first presentation of the agents' social power when obtaining resources is enough to allow infants predict the outputs of their future. Nevertheless, this capacity arises later (at 18 month-olds but not at 15 month-olds) than showed in previous studies, probably due the increased complexity of the inferences needed to make the predictions.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by grants from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013; European Research Council 323961; ‘‘Under Control”), Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades / Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PGC2018-101831-B-I00 AEI/FEDER EU), and the Catalan Government (SGR 2017-268 and ICREA [Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies] Academia 2018 award). J.B. received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BES-2013-063649.
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• dc.identifier.citation Bas J, Sebastian-Galles N. Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance. PLoS ONE. 2021 Feb 10;16(2):e0245450. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245450
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245450
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46974
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE. 2021 Feb 10;16(2):e0245450
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323961
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/BES2013-063649
• dc.rights © 2021 Bas, Sebastian-Galles. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Social status
• dc.subject.keyword Infants
• dc.subject.keyword Animal sociality
• dc.subject.keyword Analysis of variance
• dc.subject.keyword Children
• dc.subject.keyword Phase determination
• dc.subject.keyword Physiological parameters
• dc.subject.keyword Synthesis phase
• dc.title Infants' representation of social hierarchies in absence of physical dominance
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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