Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Psychol Sci. 2021 May;32(5):789-798. doi: 10.1177/0956797620980754. Epub 2021 Apr 29.
After two strangers have briefly interacted with one another, both believe that they like their partner more than their partner likes them. A plausible explanation for this is that people are constantly worrying about how others are evaluating them. If so, one would expect the liking gap to emerge in young children as they become more concerned with their reputations and the impression they make on other people. The current study ( = 241 U.S. children; age range = 4-11 years) supported this hypothesis, showing a liking gap beginning when children were 5 years old, the age at which they first become concerned with other people's evaluations of them. Moreover, the liking gap became more pronounced as children got older. These findings provide the first developmental description of the liking gap and support the hypothesis that this phenomenon is related to individuals' concerns for how others evaluate them.
在两个陌生人进行了短暂的互动之后，双方都会认为自己比对方更喜欢自己的伴侣。对于这种现象有一种合理的解释，即人们总是在担心别人如何评价自己。如果是这样，人们会期望这种喜欢差距会在小孩子中出现，因为他们开始更加关注自己的声誉和给别人留下的印象。本研究（= 241 名美国儿童；年龄范围= 4-11 岁）支持了这一假设，表明喜欢差距从儿童 5 岁时开始出现，此时他们开始关注他人对自己的评价。此外，随着儿童年龄的增长，这种差距变得更加明显。这些发现提供了对喜欢差距的第一个发展描述，并支持了这样一种假设，即这种现象与个体对他人评价的关注有关。
