Strid Karin, Meristo Marek
Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 30;11:596213. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596213. eCollection 2020.
Recent experimental studies suggest that preverbal infants are able to evaluate agents on the basis of their distributive actions. Here we asked whether such evaluations are based on infants' understanding of the distributors' intentions, or only the outcome of their actions. Ten-month-old infants observed animated movies of unequal resource allocations by distributors who attempted but failed to distribute resources equally or unequally between two individuals. We found that infants attended longer to the test event showing a third agent approaching a distributor who was unable to make an distribution, compared to the test event where the third agent approached a distributor who was unable to make an distribution of resources. Our results suggest that infants' ability to encode distributive actions goes beyond an analysis of the outcome of these actions, by including the intentions of the distributors whose actions lead to these outcomes.
最近的实验研究表明，还不会说话的婴儿能够根据施予者的分配行为来评估他们。在此，我们探讨此类评估是基于婴儿对施予者意图的理解，还是仅仅基于其行为的结果。10个月大的婴儿观看了施予者进行不平等资源分配的动画影片，这些施予者试图在两个人之间平等或不平等地分配资源，但未成功。我们发现，与第三个施予者接近成功分配资源的施予者的测试事件相比，婴儿对第三个施予者接近未能成功分配资源的施予者的测试事件注视时间更长。我们的结果表明，婴儿对分配行为进行编码的能力不仅限于对这些行为结果的分析，还包括导致这些结果的施予者的意图。
