date:Aug 18, 2016
credit for. In addition to learning about whether foods are generally good vs. bad, which is a skill humans share with other animals (including chimpanzees and rats), babies expectations about food preferences, she explained, are fundamentally social. Babies understand that what someone eats can provide information about that persons social group. Babies dont just learn that a food is good, they learn that a specific kind of person likes that food. For example, we found that if infants see an E