Birds of a Feather... Share Saliva?

In this episode, We chat with Ashley Thomas about her recent paper in the journal Science on whether infants use saliva sharing to infer relationship closeness as well as about some of the more recent controversial papers in Developmental Psychology!

Plus, Deon and Ashley discover—perhaps much to Deon's chagrin—that their views may be more in common than they are different.

Links

Thomas, A. J., Woo, B., Nettle, D., Spelke, E., & Saxe, R. (2022). Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science, 375(6578), 311-315. [Link to paper](Thomas, A. J., Woo, B., Nettle, D., Spelke, E., & Saxe, R. (2022). Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science, 375(6578), 311-315.)