Giving is a unique attribute of human sharing. In this review, we discuss evidence attesting
to our species' preparedness to recognize interactions based on this behavior. We show that …

Almost all of human infants' experience and learning takes place in the context of caregiving
relationships. This essay considers how infants understand the care they receive. We begin …

In the human mind, what is a social relationship, and what are the developmental origins of
this representation? I consider findings from infant psychology and propose that our …

Children use correlations between the syntax of a clause and the meaning of its predicate to
draw inferences about word meanings. On one proposal, these inferences are underwritten …

Across languages, GIVE and TAKE verbs have different syntactic requirements: GIVE
mandates a patient argument to be made explicit in the clause structure, whereas TAKE …

We propose that humans are prepared to interpret giving as a diagnostic cue of reciprocal–
exchange relations from infancy. A prediction following from this hypothesis is that infants …

Despite the centrality of caregiving relationships in the lives of infants, little is known about
whether and how infants represent these relationships characterized by strong attachment …

In two-person asymmetric coordination dilemmas, both people are better off if they
coordinate, but one person benefits more than the other. When these interactions recur …

Spelke posits that the concept of" social agent," who performs object-directed actions to fulfill
social goals, is the first noncore concept that infants acquire as they begin to learn their …

This dissertation investigates the interaction of develo** extralinguistic cognitive systems
with early language learning and processing through the case study of verb argument …