Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change.

IF 4.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychological Science Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-21 DOI:10.1177/09567976251331042

Gustaf Gredebäck, Kim Astor, Herbert Ainamani, Linda van den Berg, Linda Forssman, Jonathan Hall, Joshua Juvrud, Ben Kenward, Samson Mhizha, Wangchuk, Pär Nyström

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Abstract

Gaze following in infancy allows triadic social interactions and a comprehension of other individuals and their surroundings. Despite its importance for early development, its ontology is debated, with theories suggesting that gaze following is either a universal core capacity or an experience-dependent learned behavior. A critical test of these theories among 809 nine-month-olds from Africa (Uganda and Zimbabwe), Europe (Sweden), and Asia (Bhutan) demonstrated that infants follow gaze to a similar degree regardless of environmental factors such as culture, maternal well-being (postpartum depression, well-being), or traumatic family events (related to war and/or climate change). These findings suggest that gaze following may be a universal, experience-expectant process that is resilient to adversity and similar across a wide range of human experiences-a core foundation for social development.

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婴儿注视跟随在明显不同的文化中是稳定的，并且对与战争和气候变化相关的家庭逆境具有弹性。

婴儿期的注视跟随允许三合一社会互动和对其他个体及其周围环境的理解。尽管它对早期发展很重要，但它的本体仍存在争议，理论认为凝视跟随要么是一种普遍的核心能力，要么是一种依赖经验的习得行为。对来自非洲（乌干达和津巴布韦）、欧洲（瑞典）和亚洲（不丹）的809名9个月大的婴儿进行的一项关键测试表明，无论文化、母亲的幸福感（产后抑郁、幸福感）或创伤性家庭事件（与战争和/或气候变化有关）等环境因素如何，婴儿都能在相似程度上遵循凝视。这些发现表明，目光跟随可能是一种普遍的、期待经历的过程，它对逆境具有弹性，并且在广泛的人类经历中是相似的——这是社会发展的核心基础。

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