The Dynamics of Perception in Caregiving: How Infants Change the Way We See the World

IF 3.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Child development Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI:10.1111/cdev.70026

Emma Murrugarra, Michael Goldstein

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Abstract

How do caregivers perceive the world around their infants? A virtual task was created to assess how the perception of potential threats is influenced by parental experience and an infant's capacity to explore. Sixty‐five parents (Mage = 35.52, %female = 61.54, %White = 84.62) and 31 non‐parents (Mage = 19.52, %female = 74.19, %White = 32.26) were recruited from Ithaca, NY, a mid‐sized city in the northeastern region of the United States. All data were collected between October 2021 and October 2023. Participants completed a computer‐based task in which infants of varying locomotor maturity explored near a roadside (Study 1). To assess the potency of infantile cues, 16 parents (Mage = 34.56, %female = 68.75, %White = 81.25) and 21 non‐parents (Mage = 19.10, %female = 71.43, %White = 19.05) completed the task with a virtual robot and dog instead (Study 2). Adults were quicker to detect traffic and rated it as moving faster in the presence of a locomoting infant, suggesting that infantile appearance and locomotor behavior shape adults' perceptual experiences.

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照料中的感知动态：婴儿如何改变我们看待世界的方式

看护人如何看待婴儿周围的世界？创建了一个虚拟任务来评估父母的经历和婴儿的探索能力如何影响对潜在威胁的感知。65名家长（法师= 35.52，%女性= 61.54，%白人= 84.62）和31名非家长（法师= 19.52，%女性= 74.19，%白人= 32.26）从美国东北部的中型城市纽约州伊萨卡市招募。所有数据收集于2021年10月至2023年10月之间。参与者完成了一项基于计算机的任务，在该任务中，不同运动成熟度的婴儿在路边附近探索（研究1）。为了评估婴儿线索的效力，16位父母（魔法师= 34.56，%女性= 68.75，%白人= 81.25）和21位非父母（魔法师= 19.10，%女性= 71.43，%白人= 19.05）用虚拟机器人和狗代替完成了任务（研究2）。成年人能更快地察觉到交通状况，并认为有移动的婴儿在场时交通状况会更快，这表明婴儿的外貌和移动行为影响了成年人的感知体验。

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Child development Multiple-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

149

期刊介绍： As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.