Conson Massimiliano, Salzano Sara, Frolli Alessandro, Mazzarella Elisabetta
Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy.
Cognitive-Behavioral School of Psychotherapy "Serapide SPEE", Naples, Italy.
J Adolesc. 2017 Apr;56:84-90. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Feb 10.
Adolescents are particularly prone to peer influence. Since group membership modulates the person's tendency to take someone else's viewpoint, here we decided to investigate whether adolescents are influenced by the presence of a peer when taking another person's perspective. A group of adolescents from upper secondary schools in Naples (Italy) had to observe scenes of an actor (an adolescent or an adult) gazing, grasping, gazing/grasping an object or staying still. When required to judge the spatial location of the object, the adolescent participants adopted the actor's viewpoint (third-person perspective) more frequently when the actor was an adolescent rather than when he was an adult and when the adolescent actor grasped the object. Thus, adolescents seem particularly prone to mentally simulate someone else's actions when the other person is a peer. These findings suggest that modulating motor simulation processes via social environmental factors could influence adolescents' perspective taking.
青少年特别容易受到同伴影响。由于群体成员身份会调节个体采纳他人观点的倾向，因此我们决定在此研究青少年在采纳他人观点时是否会受到同伴在场的影响。一组来自意大利那不勒斯高中的青少年必须观察一名演员（青少年或成年人）注视、抓取、注视/抓取一个物体或静止不动的场景。当被要求判断物体的空间位置时，青少年参与者在演员是青少年而非成年人时，以及当青少年演员抓取物体时，更频繁地采纳演员的观点（第三人称视角）。因此，当对方是同伴时，青少年似乎特别容易在脑海中模拟他人的行为。这些发现表明，通过社会环境因素调节运动模拟过程可能会影响青少年的观点采择。
