TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Human Infants' Learning of Social Structures: The Case of Dominance Hierarchy
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Csibra, Gergely
A1  - Mascaro, Olivier
SP  - 250
EP  - 255
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
N2  - We tested 15-month-olds' capacity to represent social-dominance hierarchies with more than two agents. Our results showed that infants found it harder to memorize dominance relations that were presented in an order that hindered the incremental formation of a single structure (Study 1). These results suggest that infants attempt to build structures incrementally, relation by relation, thereby simplifying the complex problem of recognizing a social structure. Infants also found circular dominance structures harder to process than linear dominance structures (Study 2). These expectations about the shape of structures may facilitate learning. Our results suggest that infants attempt to represent social structures composed of social relations. They indicate that human infants go beyond learning about individual social partners and their respective relations and form hypotheses about how social groups are organized.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613500509
ID  - ref1
ER  -