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Infants learn from observing others' emotional behavior

Results from two new studies of 18-month olds show that infants can learn to guide their own behavior by watching others' emotional reactions. Infants in the study watched scenarios where one adult responded to another adult's actions with either anger or neutrality. Infants later were hesitant to copy the action which had caused an angry reaction. Interestingly, infants did not show this hesitance to copy this action if the 'angry' adult had left the room.

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