[en] In 1995 Christenfeld and Hill published a paper that purported to show at one year of age, infants resemble their fathers more than their mothers. Evolution, they argued, would have produced this result since it would ensure male parental resources, since the paternity of the infant would no longer be in doubt. We believe this result is false. We present the results of two experiments (and mention a third) which are very far from replicating Christenfeld and Hill's data. In addition, we provide an evolutionary explanation as to why evolution would not have favored the result reported by Christenfeld and Hill.
Research center :
Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
French, Robert
Brédart, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Huart, Johanne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Département des sciences cognitives
Labiouse, Christophe
Language :
English
Title :
The resemblance of one-year-old infants to their fathers : refuting Christenfeld & Hill (1995)
Publication date :
13 August 2000
Event name :
22nd Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Event organizer :
the Cognitive Science Society
Event place :
Philadelphie, United States
Event date :
13-15 aout 2000
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Author, co-author :
Gleitman, L. R.
Publisher :
Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, United States - New Jersey
