Maglieri Veronica, Riccobono Marco Germain, Giunchi Dimitri, Palagi Elisabetta
Unit of Ethology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via A. Volta 4, 56126 Pisa, Italy.
J Ethol. 2021;39(3):287-296. doi: 10.1007/s10164-021-00701-6. Epub 2021 Apr 17.
By gathering data on people during their ordinary daily activities, we tested if looking at, but not manipulating, smartphones led to a mimicry response in the observer. Manipulating and looking at the device (experimental condition), more than its mere manipulation (control condition), was critical to elicit a mimicry response in the observer. Sex, age and relationship quality between the experimenter and the observer had no effect on the smartphone mimicry response that tended to decrease during social meals. Due to the role of food as a tool in increasing social affiliation, it is possible that during communal eating, people engage in other forms of mimicry involving facial expressions and postures rather than the use of objects. Understanding the ethological mechanisms of the use of smartphones at everyday-social scale could unveil the processes at the basis of the widespread/increasing use of these devices at a large scale.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10164-021-00701-6.
通过收集人们在日常活动中的数据，我们测试了仅仅看着智能手机（而不进行操作）是否会导致观察者产生模仿反应。与仅仅操作设备（对照条件）相比，操作并看着设备（实验条件）对于在观察者中引发模仿反应至关重要。实验者与观察者之间的性别、年龄和关系质量对智能手机模仿反应没有影响，这种反应在社交用餐期间往往会减少。由于食物作为增进社会联系的工具所起的作用，在 communal eating 期间，人们可能会进行其他形式的模仿，涉及面部表情和姿势，而不是物体的使用。了解在日常社交层面使用智能手机的行为学机制，可能会揭示这些设备在大规模广泛/日益增加使用背后的过程。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s10164-021-00701-6获取的补充材料。
