The origins of reciprocity and social exchange in friendships.
The origins of reciprocity and social exchange in friendships.
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友谊中互惠和社会交换的起源。
DOI:
10.1002/cd.35
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发表时间:
2002
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通讯作者:
Hartup,WillardW
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作者:
Laursen,Brett;Hartup,WillardW
At birth, infants have no interest in other infants or capacity for interaction with them. Yet within the first two years of life, they come to engage in coordinated activity as well as reciprocal relationships with other youngsters. Positive overtures are given and received, negative (agonistic) overtures are also reciprocated, and certain partners come to be preferred over others—usually those with whom reciprocal social interaction has occurred previously. Coordinated social interactions and partner playmate preferences are gradually evinced across infancy and toddlerhood, accelerating in sophistication during the second year (Brownell, 1990; Howes, 1983). Specific social provisions are attached to them during the preschool years (Gleason, 1999), and eventually, a complex and nuanced meaning system encompasses children’s expectations about friends and friendship (Bigelow and LaGaipa, 1975). In this chapter, we continue efforts to conceptualize the meaning structures that children use in social relations with other children, especially in close relationships with one another. We aim to describe better children’s knowledge about friendship relations and how that knowledge changes with age, and then consider the ways these changes map onto changes in the social exchanges that children actually have with their friends. Our argument builds on the thesis that developmental changes in friendship relations can best be understood using a deep-structure level of analysis (the social meaning or essence of a relationship) and a surfacestructure level of analysis (the behaviors involved in social exchanges in