Infants ascribe social dominance to larger individuals

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 14:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants less than one year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when two individuals' goals conflict. The finding is presented this week in the journal Science.

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