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Adults express preferential biases towards individuals with similar commonalities, and infants share these ideologies as well. Psychological Science published an article, which discussed the concept of selectivity among infants in their first year of life. The article instated that infants perceptually distinguished individuals based on common relations and they elaborated on the correlation between the infants’ likings and shared similarities and dissimilarities by running two experiments in a 200 infant sample size. Experiment 1 evaluated infant partialities by determining food preferences between beans or crackers in 9- and 14-month-olds, and made observations on their correlating similar and dissimilar food preferences …show more content…
The National Post’s article correctly provided some aspects of the research findings, however, the findings were overexaggerated to create an appealing headline. The article implemented inaccurate correlations by stating that infants whom showed a preference for shared third party dissimilarities, meant that they found “pleasure in the bullying of individuals”, which created misleading assumptions of the results (Foster, 2013). Only the selective portions of the journal that supported the misleading bias were quoted, with multiple aspects of the research results omitted from the article. Evidence was provided by Hamlin stating that the results don’t concluded that infants are “born bullies”, however the author refuted the statement, by stating “But how does one square that knowledge with a seeming enjoyment of bullying” to support the established article bias (Foster, 2013). Alternatively, ScienceDaily provided a very informative, and scientifically accurate representation of the research results, whilst continuing to be reader inclusive. The journal article was correctly interpreted where the results were relevantly indicated without providing assumptions towards the development of a bias, such as when the author stated, “Hamlin emphasizes that even if these kinds of social biases are "basic," it doesn't mean that more extreme …show more content…
Whether you’d like it admit it or not, us as adults have an underlying tendency to develop favouritism towards people who share common interests and disinterests with us, and the same is true for infants. A journal article published by Psychological Science, highlights the idea that infants tend to prefer people of common similarities and are more impartial to dissimilar individuals. The research focused on two experiments done on 200 9- and 14-month-old infants by which both experiments involved them initially establishing a food preference between beans or crackers, and then forming target puppet preferences based on their similar and dissimilar food preferences (Hamlin et al., 2013). Then, they were shown puppets that were either “helper” puppets that returned the ball to the target puppet, or were “harmer” puppets that took the ball away from said target puppet. Unlike experiment 1 however, experiment 2 also additionally added a “neutral” puppet that provided no interactions in the experiment, in order to provide complete results (Hamlin et al., 2013). Both experiments concluded that, yes, infants indeed have a bias. Infants were said to prefer people who had the same similarities as them, and they tended to dislike people that were dissimilar to them. In fact, experiment 2 went as far as to touch on the idea of schadenfreude exhibited in infants, which is
Adults express preferential biases towards individuals with similar commonalities, and infants share these ideologies as well. Psychological Science published an article, which discussed the concept of selectivity among infants in their first year of life. The article instated that infants perceptually distinguished individuals based on common relations and they elaborated on the correlation between the infants’ likings and shared similarities and dissimilarities by running two experiments in a 200 infant sample size. Experiment 1 evaluated infant partialities by determining food preferences between beans or crackers in 9- and 14-month-olds, and made observations on their correlating similar and dissimilar food preferences …show more content…
The National Post’s article correctly provided some aspects of the research findings, however, the findings were overexaggerated to create an appealing headline. The article implemented inaccurate correlations by stating that infants whom showed a preference for shared third party dissimilarities, meant that they found “pleasure in the bullying of individuals”, which created misleading assumptions of the results (Foster, 2013). Only the selective portions of the journal that supported the misleading bias were quoted, with multiple aspects of the research results omitted from the article. Evidence was provided by Hamlin stating that the results don’t concluded that infants are “born bullies”, however the author refuted the statement, by stating “But how does one square that knowledge with a seeming enjoyment of bullying” to support the established article bias (Foster, 2013). Alternatively, ScienceDaily provided a very informative, and scientifically accurate representation of the research results, whilst continuing to be reader inclusive. The journal article was correctly interpreted where the results were relevantly indicated without providing assumptions towards the development of a bias, such as when the author stated, “Hamlin emphasizes that even if these kinds of social biases are "basic," it doesn't mean that more extreme …show more content…
Whether you’d like it admit it or not, us as adults have an underlying tendency to develop favouritism towards people who share common interests and disinterests with us, and the same is true for infants. A journal article published by Psychological Science, highlights the idea that infants tend to prefer people of common similarities and are more impartial to dissimilar individuals. The research focused on two experiments done on 200 9- and 14-month-old infants by which both experiments involved them initially establishing a food preference between beans or crackers, and then forming target puppet preferences based on their similar and dissimilar food preferences (Hamlin et al., 2013). Then, they were shown puppets that were either “helper” puppets that returned the ball to the target puppet, or were “harmer” puppets that took the ball away from said target puppet. Unlike experiment 1 however, experiment 2 also additionally added a “neutral” puppet that provided no interactions in the experiment, in order to provide complete results (Hamlin et al., 2013). Both experiments concluded that, yes, infants indeed have a bias. Infants were said to prefer people who had the same similarities as them, and they tended to dislike people that were dissimilar to them. In fact, experiment 2 went as far as to touch on the idea of schadenfreude exhibited in infants, which is