BABY EMPATHY: INFANT DISTRESS AND PEER PROSOCIAL RESPONSES.
BABY EMPATHY: INFANT DISTRESS AND PEER PROSOCIAL RESPONSES.
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婴儿同理心:婴儿窘迫和同龄人社交反应。
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
A. McGrath
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作者:
Mitzi;B. Bradley;A. McGrath
Empathy is an important competence in our social world, a motivator of prosocial behavior, and thought to develop throughout the second year of life. The current study examined infants' responses to naturalistic peer distress to explore markers of empathy and prosocial behavior in young babies. Seventeen 8-month-old infants participated in a repeated measures design using the "babies-in-groups" paradigm, with maternal presence as the independent variable. Significant differences were found between response types: Gaze was the standard response to infant distress, followed by socially directed behaviors and affect, with self-distress rarely occurring. Maternal presence was not found to impact the nature or frequency of babies' responses to peer distress. During distress episodes, babies looked preferentially at the distressed peer, then other mothers, and least to their own mother. Data revealed that infant responses to peer distress resulted in a successful cessation of that distress episode over one third of the time. Case studies are provided to illustrate the quantitative data. The results provided evidence of empathic concern and prosocial behavior in the first year of life, and provoke a challenge to developmental theories of empathy.
DOI:
10.1037/a0035305
发表时间:
2014
期刊:
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
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作者:
Walle,EricA;Campos,JosephJ
通讯作者:
Campos,JosephJ