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Infants’ social evaluation abilities: testing their preference for prosocial agents at 6, 12 and 18 months with different social scenarios

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Pages 1018-1031 | Received 13 Jun 2017, Accepted 26 Jul 2017, Published online: 08 Aug 2017

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