@article {1957,
	title = {Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Caregiving},
	number = {ID: 325/PS-III: 39},
	year = {2015},
	month = {01/2015},
	abstract = {<p>Considerable\&nbsp; research\&nbsp; has\&nbsp; examined\&nbsp; infants{\textquoteright}\&nbsp; reasoning\&nbsp; about\&nbsp; and\&nbsp; evaluations\&nbsp; of\&nbsp; social\&nbsp; agents,\&nbsp; but\&nbsp; two\&nbsp; questions\&nbsp; remain\&nbsp; unanswered: First, do infants organize observed social relations into larger structures, inferring the relationship between t wo social\&nbsp; beings\&nbsp; based\&nbsp; on\&nbsp; their\&nbsp; relations\&nbsp; to\&nbsp; a\&nbsp; third\&nbsp; party?\&nbsp; Second,\&nbsp; how\&nbsp; do\&nbsp; infants\&nbsp; reaso n\&nbsp; about\&nbsp; a\&nbsp; type\&nbsp; of\&nbsp; social\&nbsp; relations\&nbsp; prominent\&nbsp; in\&nbsp; all\&nbsp; societies:\&nbsp; kinship\&nbsp; relations\&nbsp; that\&nbsp; modulate\&nbsp; caregiving?\&nbsp; In\&nbsp; a\&nbsp; series\&nbsp; of\&nbsp; experiments\&nbsp; using\&nbsp; animated\&nbsp; events,\&nbsp; we\&nbsp; ask\&nbsp; whether\&nbsp; 9 - ,\&nbsp; 11 - ,\&nbsp; and 15 - to 18 - month - old infants expect two babies\&nbsp; who\&nbsp; were comforted by the same caregiver, or two caregivers\&nbsp; who comforted\&nbsp; the same baby, to affiliate with one another. We find that older infants make these inferences in a caregiving context, but n ot in a\&nbsp; different context involving social interactions among adults. Thus, infant s are sensitive to at least one aspect of kinship relations {\textemdash} caregiving {\textemdash} and organize these relations into larger social structures.</p>
},
	author = {A C Spokes and Elizabeth S Spelke}
}
