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Grandes y poderosos: los bebés preverbales representan mentalmente el dominio social
Lotte Thomsen1, Willem E Frankenhuis, McCaila Ingold-Smith
1Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. lthomsen@fas.harvard.edu
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 29, 2011
Resumen
Los bebés preverbales de entre 10 y 13 meses reconocen objetivos contradictorios y usan el tamaño del agente para predecir los resultados de la dominación. Esto sugiere representaciones mentales tempranas de jerarquías sociales y resolución de conflictos en bebés humanos.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Psicología del desarrollo Psicología del desarrollo.
- Ciencias Cognitivas Ciencias Cognitivas.
- La cognición social es el conocimiento social.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los bebés humanos deben aprender su entorno social.
- Las primeras representaciones de agentes intencionales y la cooperación ayudan a este aprendizaje.
- Comprender la dominación social es crucial para navegar por las estructuras sociales.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar si los bebés preverbales pueden reconocer objetivos contradictorios entre nuevos agentes.
- Para determinar si los bebés utilizan el tamaño del agente para predecir el resultado de las competiciones de dominio.
- Explorar el desarrollo de las representaciones de dominación social en los bebés.
Principales métodos:
- Cinco estudios en los que participaron 144 niños de 8 a 13 meses de edad.
- Los bebés observaron nuevos agentes con objetivos contradictorios.
- Se registraron las predicciones de los bebés sobre los resultados de las competiciones de dominio basadas en el tamaño relativo del agente.
Principales resultados:
- Los bebés de 10 a 13 meses, pero no los de 8 meses, reconocieron objetivos contradictorios.
- Los bebés utilizaron el tamaño relativo de los agentes para predecir el ganador de los concursos de dominación.
- Esto indica que los bebés asocian el tamaño con el dominio en los conflictos sociales.
Conclusiones:
- Los bebés pre-verbales representan mentalmente la dominación social.
- Los bebés utilizan señales filogenéticamente relevantes (tamaño) para predecir los resultados sociales.
- Estos hallazgos arrojan luz sobre el desarrollo temprano de la cognición social y la comprensión de la jerarquía.
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