Happiness is one of the most important parenting goals in today's modern society. To
promote a happy childhood, we need to understand what happiness means to children …

Social norms are foundational to human cooperation and co-existence in social groups. A
crucial marker of social norms is that a behavior is not only shared, but that the conformity to …

Research on close relationships often focuses on the dyad (eg, dyads of romantic partners)
and on how dyad members affect each other's welfare. But dyads exist embedded in …

Across two preregistered studies with children (3–12-year-olds; N= 356) and adults (N= 262)
from the United States, we find robust expectations for intergroup empathic biases …

Across the lifespan, empathic and counter-empathic emotions are shaped by social
relationships. Here we test the hypothesis that this connection is encoded in children's …

Imitation plays an important role in human social life. In this chapter, we focus on a subset of
imitation we refer to as socially-oriented imitation, or for short “social imitation.” Social …

婴儿能否感知到音乐的情绪? 以往研究混淆了婴儿对音乐声学特征和情绪特征的加工.
本研究采用预期违背范式, 观察了10~ 20 个月婴儿听音乐(听觉) 后是否形成对表情(视觉) …

Do children reason that people in close relationships accurately represent each other's
minds? In two experiments (total N= 123), we found that 7-to 9-year-old children from the US …

The capacity of infants to perceive emotions in music has been debated. Previous studies
often mixed music emotion perception with acoustic processing. To address this, the …

Sharing is a key prosocial behaviour for human success as a species. Its development
within different contexts, however, is still poorly investigated. A timely and important question …