How infant appearance informs: Child care providers' responses to babies varying in appearance of age and attractiveness
How infant appearance informs: Child care providers' responses to babies varying in appearance of age and attractiveness
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DOI：
10.1016/s0193-3973(96)90013-1
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发表时间：
1996-10-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Ritter, JM
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作者：
Casey, RJ;Ritter, JM
研究表明，婴儿的吸引力会影响成年人对其发育能力的判断，例如，不太有吸引力的婴儿被认为比更有吸引力的婴儿看起来更老。为了评估年龄知识对这些基于吸引力的归因的影响，90名持牌儿童核心中心的工作人员根据婴儿的面部外观判断特定的发展技能并对6个月大婴儿的整体发展能力进行评级。知道婴儿的实际年龄改变了吸引力和成熟度期望之间的关系。知道婴儿年龄的看护者估计，没有吸引力的婴儿在某些发展领域的特定技能相对较少，但他们仍然认为这些婴儿在他们的发展中相对有能力。在没有关于年龄的信息的情况下，照顾者通常认为不太有吸引力的婴儿能力较低，尽管他们认为这些婴儿年龄较大，拥有更多的特定技能。培训的影响，提高照顾者的判断进行了讨论。
Research suggests that on infant's attractiveness influences adults' judgments of its developmental competence, such that less attractive infants are considered to look older than more attractive infants. To assess the effects of knowledge of age on these attractiveness-based attributions, 90 staff members of licensed child core centers judged specific developmental skills and rated the global developmental competence of 6-month-olds, based on the infants' facial appearance. Knowing an infant's actual age modified relations between attractiveness and expectations of maturity Caregivers who knew the infants' ages estimated that unattractive infants were capable of relatively few specific skills in some areas of development, but they nevertheless rated those infants to be relatively competent in their development. Without information about age, caregivers often rated less attractive infants to be lower in competence, although they judged these babies to be older, with a larger number of specific skills. Training implications for improving caregivers' judgments are discussed.