Fransisca Ting

Abstract Social scientists from different disciplines have long argued that direct reciprocity plays an important role in regulating social interactions between unrelated individuals. Here, we examine whether 15-month-old infants (N = 160) already expect direct positive and negative reciprocity between strangers. In violation-of-expectation experiments, infants watch successive interactions between two strangers we refer to as agent1 and agent2.

Significance According to prior research, 2-y-old toddlers possess expectations about several moral principles. Here, we show that when a wrongdoer violates one of these principles, toddlers draw broad negative inferences from this violation. After a wrongdoer violated ingroup support or harm avoidance when interacting with one individual, toddlers did not find it unexpected if the wrongdoer next violated fairness when interacting with other individuals.

Skip Nav Destination Citation Melody Buyukozer Dawkins, Fransisca Ting, Maayan Stavans, Renée Baillargeon, 2020. "Early Moral Cognition: A Principle-Based Approach", The Cognitive Neurosciences, David Poeppel, George R. Mangun, Michael S. Gazzaniga Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex You do not currently have access to this chapter. Sign in Don't already have an account? Register You could not be signed in.