Evaluations of aggressive chasing interactions by 7-month-old infants

IF 2.7 2区 心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Alessandra Geraci, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Chiara Nascimben, Francesca Simion, Elisa Di Giorgio
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Abstract

Recent theories of socio-moral development assume that humans evolved a capacity to evaluate others' social actions in different kinds of interactions. Prior infant studies found both reaching and visual preferences for the prosocial over the antisocial agents. However, whether the attribution of either positive or negative valence to agents' actions involved in an aggressive chasing interaction can be inferred by both reaching behaviors and visual attention deployment (i.e., disengagement of visual attention) is still an open question. Here we presented 7-month-old infants (N = 92) with events displaying an aggressive chasing interaction. By using preferential reaching and an attentional task (i.e., overlap paradigm), we assessed whether and how infants evaluate aggressive chasing interactions. The results demonstrated that young infants prefer to reach the victim over the aggressor, but neither agent affects visual attention. Moreover, such reaching preferences emerged only when dynamic cues and emotional face-like features were congruent with agents' social roles. Overall, these findings suggested that infants' evaluations of aggressive interactions are based on infants' sensitivity to some kinematic cues that characterized agents' actions and, especially, to the congruency between such motions and the face-like emotional expressions of the agents.

评估 7 个月大婴儿的攻击性追逐互动。
最近的社会道德发展理论认为,人类进化出了在不同类型的互动中评估他人社会行为的能力。先前的婴儿研究发现,相对于反社会行为主体而言,婴儿在触觉和视觉上都更喜欢亲社会行为主体。然而,在攻击性追逐互动中,是否可以通过伸手行为和视觉注意力调配(即脱离视觉注意力)来推断行为主体行为的正面或负面价值归属,这仍然是一个未决问题。在此,我们向 7 个月大的婴儿(92 人)展示了攻击性追逐互动事件。通过使用优先伸手和注意任务(即重叠范式),我们评估了婴儿是否以及如何评估攻击性追逐互动。结果表明,幼婴倾向于伸手去够受害者而不是施暴者,但这两种行为都不会影响视觉注意力。此外,只有当动态线索和情绪面孔特征与行为主体的社会角色一致时,才会出现这种伸手偏好。总之,这些研究结果表明,婴儿对攻击性互动的评价是基于婴儿对一些运动线索的敏感性,这些线索是行为主体行动的特征,尤其是对这些运动与行为主体的脸部情绪表达之间的一致性的敏感性。
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Aggressive Behavior
Aggressive Behavior 医学-行为科学
CiteScore
4.90
自引率
3.40%
发文量
52
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Aggressive Behavior will consider manuscripts in the English language concerning the fields of Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Ethology, Psychiatry, Psychobiology, Psychology, and Sociology which relate to either overt or implied conflict behaviors. Papers concerning mechanisms underlying or influencing behaviors generally regarded as aggressive and the physiological and/or behavioral consequences of being subject to such behaviors will fall within the scope of the journal. Review articles will be considered as well as empirical and theoretical articles. Aggressive Behavior is the official journal of the International Society for Research on Aggression.
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