Thin-Slice Perception Develops Slowly

Autor/inn/en	Balas, Benjamin; Kanwisher, Nancy; Saxe, Rebecca
Titel	Thin-Slice Perception Develops Slowly
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112 (2012) 2, S.257-264 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.01.002
Schlagwörter	Video Technology; Cues; Nonverbal Communication; Social Cognition; Interpersonal Relationship; Interaction; Inferences; Student Behavior; Task Analysis; Human Body; Adults; Child Development; Cognitive Development; Time Factors (Learning); Experiments; Sequential Learning; Young Children; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Soziale Kognition; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interaktion; Inference; Inferenz; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Aufgabenanalyse; Menschlicher Körper; Kindesentwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Erprobung; Didaktische Sequenzierung; Lernsequenz; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Body language and facial gesture provide sufficient visual information to support high-level social inferences from "thin slices" of behavior. Given short movies of nonverbal behavior, adults make reliable judgments in a large number of tasks. Here we find that the high precision of adults' nonverbal social perception depends on the slow development, over childhood, of sensitivity to subtle visual cues. Children and adult participants watched short silent clips in which a target child played with Lego blocks either in the (off-screen) presence of an adult or alone. Participants judged whether the target was playing alone or not; that is, they detected the presence of a social interaction (from the behavior of one participant in that interaction). This task allowed us to compare performance across ages with the true answer. Children did not reach adult levels of performance on this task until 9 or 10 years of age, and we observed an interaction between age and video reversal. Adults and older children benefitted from the videos being played in temporal sequence, rather than reversed, suggesting that adults (but not young children) are sensitive to natural movement in social interactions. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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