Variability and Individual Differences in Early Social Perception and Social Cognition

• Main Author: Alia Martin (auth)
• Other Authors: Jessica Sommerville (auth), Talee Ziv (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; infant cognition; social cognition; developmental mechanisms; individual differences; social perception
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past three decades mounting evidence has suggested that infants' social perceptual and social cognitive abilities are considerably richer than was once thought. By the end of the second year of life, infants discriminate faces along various social dimensions, attend to and understand o...