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12-Month-Olds Produce Others' Intended but Unfulfilled Acts

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Before Cumulative Culture : The Evolutionary Origins of Overimitation and Shared Intentionality

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Behavioral Investments in the Short Term Fail to Produce a Sunk Cost Effect

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Childhood and the evolution of higher-effort teaching

scientific article published in January 2015

Children disassociate from antisocial in-group members.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Children imitate antisocial in-group members.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Children's capacity to remember a novel problem and to secure its future solution

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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens) know when they are ignorant about the location of food.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Copying actions and copying outcomes: social learning through the second year

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Cultural and Family Influences on Children’s Theory of Mind Development

scientific article published on 29 November 2013

Developmental changes in young children's willingness to copy the antisocial actions of ingroup members in a minimal group context

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Direct cost does not impact on young children's spontaneous helping behavior.

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Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand single invisible displacement?

scientific article published on 16 November 2005

Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Failure to demonstrate that playing violent video games diminishes prosocial behavior

scientific article published in 2013

Groups' actions trump injunctive reaction in an incidental observation by young children

scientific article

Hand in hand: Tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot

scientific article published in March 2016

Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning

scientific article published on 20 September 2015

Imitation in young children: when who gets copied is more important than what gets copied

scientific article published in July 2011

Imitation recognition in a captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

scientific article published on 21 August 2004

Imitation, Collaboration, and Their Interaction Among Western and Indigenous Australian Preschool Children

scientific article published on May 2016

Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: Essential elements in the evolution of human culture?

scientific article published on August 22, 2011

Individual differences in neonatal "imitation" fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Interacting Socially With Human Hands at 24 Months of Age

scientific article published in March 2008

Iranian Mothers’ Disciplinary Strategies and Theory of Mind in Children

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Is newborn imitation developmentally homologous to later social-cognitive skills?

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Knowledge and Belief Understanding Among Iranian and Australian Preschool Children

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Mirror Self-Recognition Beyond the Face

Motivated empathy: the mechanics of the empathic gaze.

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Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy

Object-directed imitation in children with high-functioning autism: testing the social motivation hypothesis.

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman children and the origins of human cultural cognition

scientific article published on 16 April 2010

Preschool children favor copying a successful individual over an unsuccessful group.

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Preschool children's learning proclivities: When the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance

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Re-evaluating the neonatal imitation hypothesis

scientific article published on 19 August 2018

Reflecting on imitation in autism: introduction to the special issue

scientific article published in November 2008

Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: theoretical and empirical dissections

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Spatial distribution and populations at risk of A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura co-infections and infection intensity classes: an ecological study

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

The cost of helping: An exploration of compassionate responding in children

scientific article published on 10 June 2018

The developmental origins of moral concern: An examination of moral boundary decision making throughout childhood.

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The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots

scientific article published in 2021

The effect of social engagement on 24-month-olds' imitation from live and televised models

scientific article published in September 2008

The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action.

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Tools, TV, and trust: Introduction to the special issue on imitation in typically-developing children

scientific article published on 18 October 2008

When the transmission of culture is child's play

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Where culture takes hold: "overimitation" and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.

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Why the confusion around neonatal imitation? A review

scientific article published in September 2013

Young Children From Three Diverse Cultures Spontaneously and Consistently Prepare for Alternative Future Possibilities

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Young children overimitate in third-party contexts.

scientific article published in February 2012

Young children's tool innovation across culture: Affordance visibility matters.

scientific article published on 04 August 2017