“I wanna be like you”: testing the link between social affiliation and overimitation in infancy
IntroductionOne way children learn is through imitation, an important ability to gain new skills and to share cultural knowledge. Overimitation, or the tendency to copy irrelevant actions to achieve a goal, is one specific type of imitation which may be particularly related to social motivations. Va...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Developmental Psychology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1559513/full |
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