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Direct linkSabina Pauen; Jule Bach – Social Development, 2025
Imitation plays a crucial role in early social learning. Numerous studies indicate that young children copy even actions that are clearly irrelevant for goal achievement--a phenomenon called overimitation (OI). The present study tested whether this finding can be generalized to different forms of faithful nonsense imitation presented in different…
Descriptors: Imitation, Young Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Change
