School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2023 Jul-Aug;14(4):e1643. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1643. Epub 2023 Jan 19.
A preference is defined as a dispositional state that helps explain why a person chooses one option over another. Preference understanding is a significant part of interpreting and predicting others' behavior, which can also help to guide social encounters, for instance, to initiate interactions and even form relationships based on shared preferences. Cognitive developmental research in the past several decades has revealed that infants have relatively sophisticated understandings about others' preferences, as part of investigations into how young children make sense of others' behavior in terms of mental states such as intentions, dispositions including preferences, and epistemic states. In recent years, research on early psychological knowledge expands to including infant understanding of social situations. As such, infants are also found to use their preference understandings in their social life. They treat favorably others who share their own preferences, and they prefer prosocial and similar others (e.g., those who speak their language). In reviewing these results, we point out future directions for research and conclude with further suggestions and recommendations. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Cognitive Development Psychology > Development and Aging.
偏好被定义为一种性格状态，可以帮助解释为什么一个人会选择一个选项而不是另一个。偏好理解是解释和预测他人行为的重要组成部分，它还可以帮助指导社交互动，例如，根据共同的偏好发起互动，甚至建立关系。过去几十年的认知发展研究表明，婴儿对他人的偏好有相对复杂的理解，这是研究儿童如何根据意图、偏好等心理状态以及认知状态来理解他人行为的一部分。近年来，对早期心理知识的研究扩展到包括婴儿对社会情境的理解。因此，也发现婴儿在他们的社会生活中使用他们的偏好理解。他们喜欢与自己有共同偏好的人，更喜欢亲社会和相似的人（例如，说他们语言的人）。在回顾这些结果时，我们指出了未来的研究方向，并提出了进一步的建议和推荐。本文属于以下类别：认知生物学>认知发展心理学>发展与衰老。
