婴儿对共享低效行为的社会信号价值非常敏感
1Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08005, Barcelona, Spain. j.bas.research@gmail.com.
Scientific reports
|November 17, 2023
概括
婴儿学到,复制低效的行为是社会归属的信号. 这表明看似不理性的行为在群体结合和社会信号传递中起着至关重要的作用.
科学领域:
- 认知发展 认知发展
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 进化心理学 进化心理学
背景情况:
- 不有效的行为,就像仪式一样,往往标志着社会归属.
- 人类直观的行动分析机制可能会使低效的行为在复制时具有社会价值.
研究的目的:
- 调查婴儿是否理解再生效率低下行为的社会信号功能.
- 确定观察行为生殖如何影响婴儿的社会偏好期望.
主要方法:
- 让15个月大的婴儿熟悉一种可以复制或观察有效/无效的作用的药物.
- 测量婴儿对第三方对表现出效率或低效率的药物的偏好的期望.
- 比较婴儿的期望,当第三方复制行动与当他们仅仅观察.
主要成果:
- 婴儿期望第三方更喜欢高效而非低效的代理商,当代理商单独行动.
- 当第三方复制代理人的行为时,这种偏好就会逆转,以低效的代理人为首选.
- 观察第三方的行动复制改变了婴儿的社会偏好判断.
结论:
- 复制没有明确的理性基础的行为具有关键的社会信号功能.
- 这种机制有助于解释人类群体中仪式式和看似低效的行为普遍存在.
- 婴儿很早就能理解动作复制是如何促进社会归属信号的.
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