Baby, you light-up my face: culture-general physiological responses to infants and culture-specific cognitive judgements of adults.

Infants universally elicit in adults a set of solicitous behaviors that are evolutionarily important for the survival of the species. However, exposure, experience, and prejudice appear to govern adults' social choice and ingroup attitudes towards other adults. In the current study, physiologic...

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Main Authors: Gianluca Esposito, Jun Nakazawa, Shota Ogawa, Rita Stival, Akiko Kawashima, Diane L Putnick, Marc H Bornstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4212966?pdf=render