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#742 Zoe Liberman: Infant Social Cognition, Social Categorization, Gossip, and Ritual

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Is Sharing a Secret a Cue of Friendship?

By around age five, children do think that sharing a secret is a very good cue to friendship. Kids also think that the thing that you share doesn't have to be a physical item. And we trust our friends with our secrets more than we would trust other people.

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