| Infants prefer to imitate a reliable person. | |
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PMID: 21353308 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Research has shown that preschoolers prefer to learn from individuals who are a reliable source of information. The current study examined whether the past reliability of a person's emotional signals influences infants' willingness to imitate that person. An emotional referencing task was first administered to infants in order to demonstrate the experimenter's credibility or lack thereof. Next, infants in both conditions watched as the same experimenter turned on a touch light using her forehead. Infants were then given the opportunity to reproduce this novel action. As expected, infants in the unreliable condition developed the expectation that the person's emotional cues were misleading. Thus, these infants were subsequently more likely to use their hands than their foreheads when attempting to turn on the light. In contrast, infants in the reliable group were more likely to imitate the experimenter's action using their foreheads. These results suggest that the reliability of the model influences infants' imitation. |
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Diane Poulin-Dubois; Ivy Brooker; Alexandra Polonia |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-23 |
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Title: Infant behavior & development Volume: - ISSN: 1934-8800 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-2-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7806016 Medline TA: Infant Behav Dev Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
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