Woodward Amanda L
University of Maryland, College Park.
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2009 Feb 1;18(1):53-57. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01605.x.
The perception of others as intentional agents is fundamental to human experience and foundational to development. Recent research reveals that this cornerstone of social perception has its roots early in infancy, and that it draws structure from the universal, early emerging human experience of engaging in goal-directed action. Infants' own action capabilities correlate with their emerging tendency to view others' actions as organized by goals. Moreover, interventions that facilitate new goal-directed actions alter infants' perception of those same actions in others. These effects seem to depend on the first-person aspects of infants' experience. These findings open new questions about how doing leads to knowing in the social domain.
将他人视为有意向的主体，这一认知对于人类体验而言至关重要，也是发展的基础。近期研究表明，这种社会认知的基石在婴儿早期就已存在，并且它从参与目标导向行动这一普遍且早期出现的人类体验中汲取结构。婴儿自身的行动能力与其将他人行动视为由目标组织起来的新出现的倾向相关。此外，促进新的目标导向行动的干预措施会改变婴儿对他人相同行动的认知。这些影响似乎取决于婴儿体验的第一人称视角。这些发现开启了关于在社会领域中行动如何导致认知的新问题。
