Feeling out a link between feeling and infant sociomoral evaluation
| Autor: | Janine Slevinsky, Zoe Liberman, Julia W. Van de Vondervoort, Doan T. Le, J. Kiley Hamlin, Conor M. Steckler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Emotions First year of life 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Likert scale 03 medical and health sciences Child Development 0302 clinical medicine Developmental Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Single-Blind Method 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Toddler Social Behavior media_common Facial expression 05 social sciences Infant Facial Expression Feeling Prosocial behavior Infant Behavior Positive emotion Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 36:482-500 |
| ISSN: | 0261-510X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjdp.12232 |
| Popis: | Recent research has shown that infants selectively approach prosocial versus antisocial characters, suggesting that foundations of sociomoral development may be present early in life. Despite this, to date, the mental processes involved in infants' prosocial preferences are poorly understood. To explore a possible role of emotions in early social evaluations, the current studies examined whether four samples of infants and toddlers express different emotional reactions after observing prosocial (giving) versus antisocial (taking) events. Experimentally blind coders rated infants' and toddlers' emotional reactions to prosocial and antisocial interactions from video using a 1- to 7-point Likert scale of negative to positive emotion; reactions were rated as more positive after viewing prosocial compared to antisocial interactions in three of four samples. While the observed effects were small, a single-paper meta-analysis suggests that the findings are robust and stable across age. These results support the possibility that emotional reactions play some role in infants' sociomoral evaluations. Statement of contribution What is already known Infants prefer prosocial to antisocial individuals from the first year of life. Emotion plays some role in the sociomoral judgments of children and adults. What this study adds Infants and toddlers express more positive reactions after observing prosocial giving versus antisocial taking acts, though observed effect sizes are small. Naïve coders can predict at a better than chance rate what type of act an infant or toddler just viewed based on their facial expressions. Provides the first evidence that emotion plays some to-be-specified role in infants' and toddlers' sociomoral evaluations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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