Fernando Sánchez

Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Big news on #SaferInternetDay: I’ve been elected as a Research Fellow with the AIChildSafety.org Childhood & AI Lab.

Grateful to John Zoltner and the Lab for creating space for this kind of work.
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#AIChildSafety #ChildhoodAndAI #ResponsibleAI #DevSci

Want to learn more? I'll be presenting this and follow up work at:

@spspnews.bsky.social pre-conference "Origins of the social mind" (poster session)
@cogdevsoc.bsky.social symposium "Numerical foundations of human fairness"

The emergence of disadvantageous inequity aversion between 2–4 years When and how children begin responding to inequitable resource distributions, particularly those that put them at a disadvantage, remains unclear. Acr…

We propose that 2-year-olds show emerging sensitivity to disadvantageous outcomes, but only 4-year-olds' costly responses to unfairness reflect true disadvantageous inequity aversion.

Read more at:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are 2-year-olds inequity averse?

In our new Journal of Experimental Child Psychology paper, @dchyde.bsky.social and I find that 2-year-olds show sensitivity to disadvantageous offers only through non-costly responses, while 4-year-olds respond in both costly and non-costly ways.🧵

The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...

Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are humans the only rational animals?

For thousands of years, we’ve thought so.

Our new paper, out today in Science, suggests otherwise!
We present evidence that chimpanzees possess several core capacities for rational thought.

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