The native language of social cognition

By Katherine D. Kinzler, Emmanuel Dupoux, Elizabeth S. Spelke. 2007

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations. (2010, background): “While there is evidence that in some situations, visual preferences correspond with social preferences (Kinzler et al., 2007; Langlois et al., 1990), it is important to examine this issue in the current paradigm.”
Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism (2012, background): “Infants notice markers of ingroup membership and prefer members of their ingroup (Kinzler et al., 2007), and even prefer those who help similar others and harm dissimilar others (Hamlin, Mahajan, Liberman, & Wynn, in press).”
Social Effects of Movement Synchrony: Increased Infant Helpfulness only Transfers to Affiliates of Synchronously Moving Partners (2016, background): “For example, when interacting with native compared to foreign language speakers, six-month-old infants look longer at native speakers (Kinzler et al., 2007), ten-month-olds are more likely to accept objects from them (Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2012), and 14-month-olds are more likely to mimic them…”
Five-month-old infants' identification of the sources of vocalizations (2009, background): “In the case of humans, spoken language represents the most fundamental vehicle for transmitting ideas and for identifying with a particular culture (8).”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, positive): “These effects emerge early in childhood (Birch and Bloom 2002; Vikram 2004; Kinzler et al. 2007) and appear to influence cultural transmission across a wide range of representations, including”
Categorization of regional and foreign accent in 5- to 7-year-old British children (2009, background): “In contrast, infants’ and children’s sensitivity to foreign accents seems more stable during childhood (Girard et al., 2008; Kinzler et al., 2007), although the data reported by Girard et al. (2008) which directly compare categorization of regional and foreign accent might be due to a difference in…”