12-and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others
12-and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327647jcd0702_2
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Tomasello, Michael
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作者：
Liszkowski, Ulf;Carpenter, Malinda;Tomasello, Michael
传统上，婴儿进行指向的主要原因有两个：（a）当他们希望成人为他们做某事时，他们会强制地指向（例如，给他们一些东西；“果汁！”）；（b）当他们希望成人与他们分享对一些有趣的事件或物体的注意力时，他们会声明性地指向（“看！”）。在这里，我们证明了婴儿早期指向手势的另一个动机：告知另一个人他正在寻找的物体的位置。这种指向的信息动机表明，从个体发育的早期开始，人类就将他人视为具有信息状态的有意代理，并且他们有动机以交流方式提供此类信息。
Classically, infants are thought to point for 2 main reasons: (a) They point imperatively when they want an adult to do something for them (e.g., give them something; "Juice!"), and (b) they point declaratively when they want an adult to share attention with them to some interesting event or object ("Look!"). Here we demonstrate the existence of another motive for infants' early pointing gestures: to inform another person of the location of an object that person is searching for. This informative motive for pointing suggests that from very early in ontogeny humans conceive of others as intentional agents with informational states and they have the motivation to provide such information communicatively.