Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community

IF 3 1区 心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Davide Ponzi , David C. Geary , Mark V. Flinn
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Abstract

Acquiring knowledge and understanding of social relationships is a key task for the human child. Methods for studying social networks are constrained by pragmatic issues of time and informant accuracy. Here we report results from a study focused specifically on how measures of cognitive ability – fluid intelligence and working memory – are associated with children's perceptions of their social networks assessed by a consecutive pile-sort method. This focused study is part of a long-term research project on family relationships and child health in a rural Caribbean community that provides comparative ethnographic depth. Our general objective here is to better understand relations between cognition and children's understanding of their social worlds. Our secondary objective is to assess an intersection of research methodologies from ethnography and cognitive psychology. Results demonstrated that measures of children's working memory capacity, but not of fluid reasoning ability, associated positively with accurate reconstruction of their social networks--a finding with potential implications for the co-evolution of human sociality and cognitive abilities.

多明尼加乡村社区儿童及青少年的社交网络准确性
获取知识和理解社会关系是人类儿童的一项关键任务。研究社交网络的方法受到时间和信息准确性等语用问题的限制。在这里,我们报告了一项研究的结果,该研究特别关注认知能力的测量方法——流体智力和工作记忆——与儿童对其社会网络的感知之间的关系。这项重点研究是加勒比农村社区家庭关系和儿童健康长期研究项目的一部分,该项目提供了比较人种学的深度。我们的总体目标是更好地理解认知与儿童对其社会世界的理解之间的关系。我们的第二个目标是评估民族志和认知心理学研究方法的交集。结果表明,儿童的工作记忆能力,而不是流动推理能力,与他们的社会网络的准确重建呈正相关——这一发现对人类社会性和认知能力的共同进化有潜在的影响。
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Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolution and Human Behavior 生物-行为科学
CiteScore
8.30
自引率
9.80%
发文量
62
审稿时长
82 days
期刊介绍: Evolution and Human Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal, presenting research reports and theory in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior. It is primarily a scientific journal, but submissions from scholars in the humanities are also encouraged. Papers reporting on theoretical and empirical work on other species will be welcome if their relevance to the human animal is apparent.
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