Infant Gaze Following is Stable Across Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated with War and Climate Change

Gaze following in infancy allow triadic social interactions and a comprehension of other individuals and their surroundings. Despite its importance for early development, its ontology is debated with theories arguing that gaze following is either a universal core capacity or an experience-dependent learned behavior. A critical test of these theories including 809 nine-month-olds from Africa, Europe, and Asia, demonstrates that infants follow gaze, to a similar degree, regardless of environmental factors such as culture, maternal well-being, or traumatic family events. These findings imply that gaze following is a universal, experience-expectant process, resilient to adversity and similar across a wide range of human experiences - a core foundation for social development. This dataset contains the main spreadsheet with questionnaire outcomes for statistical analyses and the TimeStudio scientific workflow that contains all source code for analyses and figure generation.