{"pk":49999,"title":"Do infants use cues of saliva sharing to infer close relationships? A replication of Thomas et al. (2022)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In their 2022 study, Thomas and colleagues found that when observing third-party interactions, infants, toddlers, and children might use saliva-sharing as a cue for inferring relationship thickness. The present study is the first external attempt to replicate their key findings with infants aged 8.5 to 10 months (n = 50). We used the original stimuli and the original design, but instead of running the study online and coding gaze direction manually from video recordings, we tested infants in a laboratory and measured gaze behavior with an eye tracker. Our study successfully replicated one of the main findings of the original study (longer looking at the saliva-sharing actress) while failing to replicate the other one (looking first at the saliva-sharer). These findings confirm that infants rely on certain behavioral cues for mapping social relationships among third-party individuals.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Social cognition; Eye tracking"}],"section":"Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wr3w1dw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Beyza Gokcen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ciftci","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"F.","last_name":"Kominsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gergely","middle_name":"","last_name":"Csibra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49999/galley/37961/download/"}]}