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    "pk": 26107,
    "title": "Preferring the Mighty to the Meek: Toddlers Prefer Novel Dominant Agents.",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Every human society includes social hierarchies—\nrelationships between individuals and groups of unequal rank\nor status. Recent research has shown that even preverbal\ninfants represent hierarchical relationships, expecting larger\nagents and agents from larger groups to win dominance\ncontests. However, to successfully navigate social hierarchies,\ninfants must also integrate information about social rank into\ntheir own behavior, such as when deciding which individuals\nto approach and which to avoid. Here we demonstrate that two-\nyear-old children (ages 21-31 months) preferred novel\ndominant agents to subordinates. That is, by the age of 21\nmonths, toddlers not only use phylogenetically stable cues to\npredict the winner of dominance contests, they also like the\ndominant agents better. This finding suggests that young\nchildren use their ability to infer relative rank to selectively\napproach dominant individuals.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "social hierarchy"
        },
        {
            "word": "naïve sociology"
        },
        {
            "word": "infant cognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "social cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/559808b1",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ashley",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Thomas",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Meline",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Abramyan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Angela",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lukowski",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lotte",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thomsen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "W.",
            "last_name": "Sarnecka",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T21:00:00+03:00",
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