Baby, You Light-Up My Face: Culture-General Physiological Responses to Infants and Culture-Specific Cognitive Judgements of Adults

• Main Authors: Esposito, Gianluca, Nakazawa, Jun, Ogawa, Shota, Stival, Rita, Kawashima, Akiko, Putnick, Diane L., Bornstein, Marc H.
• Other Authors: Senju, Atsushi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Infants; Face
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84157; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41648
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Infants universally elicit in adults a set of solicitous behaviors that are evolutionarily important for the survival of the species. However, exposure, experience, and prejudice appear to govern adults' social choice and ingroup attitudes towards other adults. In the current study, physiologic...