Infants' Social Evaluation Abilities: Testing Their Preference for Prosocial Agents at 6, 12 and 18 Months with Different Social Scenarios

Autor/inn/en	Holvoet, Claire; Scola, Céline; Arciszewski, Thomas; Picard, Delphine
Titel	Infants' Social Evaluation Abilities: Testing Their Preference for Prosocial Agents at 6, 12 and 18 Months with Different Social Scenarios
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 189 (2019) 6, S.1018-1031 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Holvoet, Claire)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2017.1361415
Schlagwörter	Infants; Age Differences; Toddlers; Prosocial Behavior; Social Influences; Preferences; Antisocial Behavior; Race; Eye Movements; Cartoons; Environmental Influences; Nonverbal Communication; Visual Stimuli; Foreign Countries; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Infants; Sozialer Einfluss; Rasse; Abstammung; Augenbewegung; Zeichentrickfilm; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ausland; Frankreich
Abstract	Recent research suggests that infants prefer prosocial behaviour. However, some studies have failed to report this preference, raising the question of which specific parameters allow it to be observed. We attempted to answer this question by investigating whether the preference varies (1) with age (by testing infants aged 6, 12 and 18 months), (2) with type of social behaviour (help, play or share) and (3) when the pro- and antisocial agents' appearance is manipulated (neutral, own-race or other-race faces). To this end, we use an eye-tracking methodology to assess infants' preferences for pro- versus antisocial agents featured in animated cartoons. We found that the prosocial preference was not stable across ages and varied according to social scenario. No sound conclusion could be reached about the influence of faces. Our results raise a new question, concerning the extent to which very young infants perceive prosociality in complex social behaviour. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01