Infants have social sightlines

One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about others

Infants make sense of the social world from the inside out. By age 1, kids rapidly incorporate their own visual experiences into a framework for understanding what other people can or can’t see, a new study finds.

Personal experience enables social thinking in early childhood, say Andrew Meltzoff and Rechele Brooks, both psychologists at the University of Washington in Seattle.