Over Harriet
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2016 Jan 19;371(1686):20150072. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0072.
Our reliance on our group members has exerted a profound influence over our motivation: successful group functioning requires that we are motivated to interact, and engage, with those around us. In other words, we need to belong. In this article, I explore the developmental origins of our need to belong. I discuss existing evidence that, from early in development, children seek to affiliate with others and to form long-lasting bonds with their group members. Furthermore, when children are deprived of a sense of belonging, it has negative consequences for their well-being. This focus on social motivation enables us to examine why and in what circumstances children engage in particular behaviours. It thus provides an important complement to research on social cognition. In doing so, it opens up important questions for future research and provides a much-needed bridge between developmental and social psychology.
成功的团队协作要求我们有动力与周围的人互动并参与其中。换句话说，我们需要归属感。在本文中，我探讨了我们归属感需求的发展起源。我讨论了现有证据，即从发育早期开始，儿童就试图与他人建立联系并与团队成员形成持久的纽带。此外，当儿童被剥夺归属感时，会对他们的幸福产生负面影响。这种对社会动机的关注使我们能够研究儿童为什么以及在何种情况下会表现出特定行为。因此，它为社会认知研究提供了重要补充。这样做，它为未来的研究提出了重要问题，并在发展心理学和社会心理学之间架起了一座急需的桥梁。
