Leiden University.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
J Res Adolesc. 2019 Jun;29(2):508-522. doi: 10.1111/jora.12401. Epub 2018 Apr 26.
In order to decrease the occurrence of social exclusion in adolescence, we need to better understand how adolescents perceive and behave toward peers involved in exclusion. We examined the role of friendships in treatment of perpetrators and victims of social exclusion. Eighty-nine participants (aged 9-16) observed exclusion of an unfamiliar peer (victim) by their best friend and another unfamiliar peer. Subsequently, participants could give up valuable coins to altruistically punish or help peers. Results showed that participants altruistically compensated victims and punished unfamiliar excluders, but refrained from punishing their friends. Our findings show that friendship with excluders modulates altruistic punishment of peers and provide mechanistic insight into how friendships may influence treatment of peers involved in social exclusion during adolescence.
为了减少青少年时期的社会排斥现象，我们需要更好地理解青少年如何看待和对待被排斥的同龄人。我们研究了友谊在处理社会排斥的加害者和受害者中的作用。89 名参与者（年龄 9-16 岁）观察到他们最好的朋友和另一个不熟悉的同伴排斥一个不熟悉的同伴（受害者）。随后，参与者可以放弃有价值的硬币，无私地惩罚或帮助同伴。结果表明，参与者无私地补偿受害者，并惩罚不熟悉的排斥者，但避免惩罚他们的朋友。我们的研究结果表明，与排斥者的友谊会影响对同伴的利他惩罚，并为友谊如何影响青少年时期处理社会排斥同伴提供了机制上的见解。
