Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Nov 6;115(45):11377-11384. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1805707115.
In light of calls for improving people's skill in collaboration, this paper examines strengths in processes of collaboration of Mexican immigrant children. Sibling pairs (6-10 years old) in California were asked to collaborate in planning the shortest route through a model grocery store. On average, 14 sibling pairs with Mexican Indigenous-heritage backgrounds engaged together collaboratively as an ensemble, making decisions in common and fluidly building on each other's ideas, more often than 16 middle-class European American sibling pairs, who on average more often divided decision making into a solo activity (often ignoring the other or simply bossing the other). Siblings who spent more time collaborating fluidly as an ensemble in the shared planning task were also more likely to collaborate with initiative at home, according to their mothers, which suggests that family socialization practices may contribute to cultural differences in collaboration.
鉴于提高人们协作技能的呼声，本文考察了墨西哥移民儿童协作过程中的优势。在加利福尼亚，要求兄弟姐妹（6-10 岁）合作规划通过模型杂货店的最短路线。平均而言，14 对具有墨西哥本土血统的兄弟姐妹一起协作，作为一个整体做出共同的决策，并流畅地相互构建想法，这比 16 对中产阶级欧洲裔美国兄弟姐妹更为常见，后者平均更倾向于将决策分解为单独的活动（经常忽略或简单地指挥另一个）。根据母亲的说法，在共享规划任务中更流畅地作为一个整体进行协作的兄弟姐妹，在家庭中也更有可能主动协作，这表明家庭社会化实践可能促成了协作方面的文化差异。
