Infants Understand How Testimony Works.
Infants Understand How Testimony Works.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11245-013-9180-0
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发表时间：
2014-10
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Lane, Jonathan D
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作者：
Harris, Paul L;Lane, Jonathan D
孩子们从其他人的证词中了解世界，经常接受他们被告知的各种不可观察到的、甚至是违反直觉的现象。然而，关于儿童从证词中学习的研究对这种能力的基础给予了有限的关注。我们问，这些基础是否可以在婴儿时期观察到。我们回顾了来自两个研究领域的证据：婴儿对他人情绪表达的敏感性；以及他们通过非语言手势和发声理解信息交换的能力。我们的结论是，在第二年早些时候就掌握了双向信息交流的情况。我们讨论了对未来研究的影响，特别是在不同的文化背景下。
Children learn about the world from the testimony of other people, often coming to accept what they are told about a variety of unobservable and indeed counterintuitive phenomena. However, research on children’s learning from testimony has paid limited attention to the foundations of that capacity. We ask whether those foundations can be observed in infancy. We review evidence from two areas of research: infants’ sensitivity to the emotional expressions of other people; and their capacity to understand the exchange of information through non-verbal gestures and vocalization. We conclude that a grasp of the bi-directional exchange of information is present early in the second year. We discuss the implications for future research, especially across different cultural settings.