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Videos und Arbeitsblätter: Experimente zum Sozialverhalten von Kleinkindern

Anhand von Puppenspielen erforschen Psycholog:innen, was Kleinkinder im Alter von wenigen Monaten bereits über ihre soziale Umwelt denken und zwischen „gut“ und „böse“ unterscheiden können.

Teaching material type Arbeitsblatt, Experiment, Video

Subject Areas Biologie, Ethik, Psychologie

Suitable Grade Levels 6-8, 9-12

Content Anchors Kindliche Entwicklung

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How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others

Although adults generally prefer helpful behaviors and those who perform them, there are situations (in particular, when the target of an action is disliked) in which overt antisocial acts are seen as appropriate, and those who perform them are viewed positively. The current studies explore the developmental origins of this capacity for selective social evaluation. We find that although 5-mo-old infants uniformly prefer individuals who act positively toward others regardless of the status of the target, 8-mo-old infants selectively prefer characters who act positively toward prosocial individuals and characters who act negatively toward antisocial individuals. Additionally, young toddlers direct positive behaviors toward prosocial others and negative behaviors toward antisocial others. These findings constitute evidence that the nuanced social judgments and actions readily observable in human adults have their foundations in early developing cognitive mechanisms.

Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial othersr prosocial to antisocial others

Hamlin, J. K., & Wynn, K. (2011). Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others. Cogn Dev., 26(1), 30–39. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.09.001

The current study replicates and extends the finding (Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom, 2007) that infants prefer individuals who act prosocially toward unrelated third parties over those who act antisocially. Using different stimuli from those used by Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom (2007), somewhat younger subjects, and 2 additional social scenarios, we replicated the findings that (a) infants prefer those who behave prosocially versus antisocially, and (b) these preferences are based on the social nature of the actions. The generality of infants’ responses across multiple examples of prosocial and antisocial actions supports the claim that social evaluation is fundamental to perceiving the world.

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Videos und Arbeitsblätter: Experimente zum Sozialverhalten von Kleinkindern

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