Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.
Dev Sci. 2019 May;22(3):e12774. doi: 10.1111/desc.12774. Epub 2018 Dec 17.
We investigated whether encouraging young children to discuss the mental states of an immigrant group would elicit more prosocial behaviour towards them and impact on their perception of a group member's emotional experience. Five- and 6-year-old children were either prompted to talk about the thoughts and feelings of this social group or to talk about their actions. Across two studies, we found that this manipulation increased the extent to which children shared with a novel member of the immigrant group who was the victim of a minor transgression. The manipulation did not lead to greater sharing towards a victim from the children's own culture and did not influence their perception of a victim's negative emotions. These results may ultimately have implications for interventions aimed at fostering positive intergroup relations within the context of immigration.
我们调查了鼓励幼儿讨论一个移民群体的心理状态是否会引发更多的亲社会行为，并影响他们对群体成员情感体验的感知。在两项研究中，我们发现这种操纵增加了儿童与移民群体中一个新成员分享的程度，这个成员是一个轻微违规行为的受害者。这种操纵并没有导致儿童对自己文化中的受害者产生更多的分享，也没有影响他们对受害者负面情绪的感知。这些结果可能最终对旨在移民背景下促进积极的群体间关系的干预措施产生影响。
