Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera

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    Compared with other primates, human eyes have a unique morphology. It has been argued that the lack of pigmentation in human eyes evolved specifically as an adaptation in an environment where cooperation was a prerequisite for survival and reproduction (i.e., the cooperative eye hypothesis; see Emery, 2000; Kobayashi and amp; Hashiya, 2011; Kobayashi and amp; Kohshima, 1997, 2001; Tomasello et_al, 2007; Yorzinski and amp; Miller, 2020). Children`s capacity to track gaze in joint attention interactions has been shown to be a crucial milestone in their development of cultural learning (Tomasello, 2000, 2014 . . .

     

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