Children's use of personality attributions to predict other people's emotional and behavioral reactions.
Children's use of personality attributions to predict other people's emotional and behavioral reactions.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1988.tb03232.x
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发表时间：
1988-06
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
J. Gnepp;Chinni Chilamkurti
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作者：
J. Gnepp;Chinni Chilamkurti
这项研究考察了儿童在预测他们未来对事件的情绪和行为反应时考虑他人性格特征的能力。幼儿园、二年级、四年级和大学的学生听了一系列的故事。每个故事描述了一个孩子过去行为的3个例子，从中可以推断出一个人的性格特征。受试者被要求预测和解释故事人物对新事件的行为或情感反应。他们的反应与那些没有得到任何关于主人公过去行为的信息的受试者以及那些收到提示的受试者进行了比较。随着年龄的增长，使用人格归因来预测和解释未来的反应。被试在预测行为时比预测情绪时更受特质信息的影响。理解情绪可能更困难，因为它需要将人格特质概念化为暗示思想和感受以及行为倾向。
This study examines children's abilities to take other people's personality traits into account when predicting their future emotional and behavioral reactions to events. Kindergarten, second-grade, fourth-grade, and college students listened to a series of stories. Each story described 3 examples of a child's past behavior from which a personality trait could be inferred. Subjects were asked to predict and explain the story character's behavioral or emotional reaction to a new event. Their responses were compared to those of subjects who were not given any information about the protagonist's past behavior, and to those of subjects who received prompts. There was an increase with age in the use of personality attributions to predict and explain future reactions. Subjects were more influenced by the trait information when predicting behavior than when predicting emotion. Understanding emotion may be more difficult in that it requires a conceptualization of personality traits as implying thoughts and feelings, as well as behavioral dispositions.