Young infants see saliva sharing as a sign of a close bond, experiments suggest

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What happened

Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity—you're pretty helpless and fully reliant on the people around you.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:50:01 UTC.

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