Best Friends: Children Use Mutual Gaze to Identify Friendships in Others

Autor/inn/en	Nurmsoo, Erika; Einav, Shiri; Hood, Bruce M.
Titel	Best Friends: Children Use Mutual Gaze to Identify Friendships in Others
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 15 (2012) 3, S.417-425 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01143.x
Schlagwörter	Cues; Nonverbal Communication; Cartoons; Friendship; Eye Movements; Young Children; Age Differences; Correlation; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Zeichentrickfilm; Freundschaft; Augenbewegung; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Korrelation; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	This study examined children's ability to use mutual eye gaze as a cue to friendships in others. In Experiment 1, following a discussion about friendship, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds were shown animations in which three cartoon children looked at one another, and were told that one target character had a best friend. Although all age groups accurately detected the mutual gaze between the target and another character, only 5- and 6-year-olds used this cue to infer friendship. Experiment 2 replicated the effect with 5- and 6-year-olds when the target character was not explicitly identified. Finally, in Experiment 3, where the attribution of friendship could only be based on synchronized mutual gaze, 6-year-olds made this attribution, while 4- and 5-year-olds did not. Children occasionally referred to mutual eye gaze when asked to justify their responses in Experiments 2 and 3, but it was only by the age of 6 that reference to these cues correlated with the use of mutual gaze in judgements of affiliation. Although younger children detected mutual gaze, it was not until 6 years of age that children reliably detected and justified mutual gaze as a cue to friendship. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10