孩子们将更高的社会地位归因于具有非凡能力的人
Xianwei Meng1, Tatsunori Ishii2, Kairi Sugimoto3
1Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Cognition
|July 31, 2023
概括
只有5-6岁的孩子希望具有非凡能力的个体能够拥有更高的社会地位. 这种"非凡的主导期望"从小就影响了他们对社会层次和主导地位的看法.
科学领域:
- 认知发展 认知发展
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 人类学是人类学.
背景情况:
- 从历史上看,被认为具有非凡能力的个人往往拥有高社会地位.
- 这种现象表明一种潜在的普遍认知偏见,即"非凡主导期望".
- 这种期望甚至在现代社会中也可能支宗教思想和社会层次结构.
研究的目的:
- 调查幼儿是否表现出"异常主导期望".
- 为了确定儿童是否将非凡的能力与更高的社会地位联系起来.
- 探索社会层次和宗教认知的认知基础.
主要方法:
- 实验1:向5-6岁的儿童展示了一些场景,其中涉及使用人类可能或不可能的方法 (违反直觉心理学,物理或生物学) 的个体.
- 实验2:通过使用令人惊但可能的方法,评估孩子是否将主导地位归因于个人.
- 实验3:复制了非凡主导期望,并测试了不分青红白的积极归因.
主要成果:
- 孩子们发现不可能的方法令人惊和不寻常.
- 孩子们预测,具有非凡能力的个人将获得资源,并主导互动,表明更高的社会地位.
- 孩子们并没有将主导权归因于仅仅是令人惊但可能的行为,也不会毫不分辨地积极地看待非凡的能力.
结论:
- 在各种直观知识领域的早期儿童中存在非凡主导期望.
- 这些发现揭示了宗教思想背后的认知机制.
- 该研究提供了对等级社会系统认知基础的见解.
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