Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Child Dev. 2023 Jul-Aug;94(4):956-969. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13912. Epub 2023 Feb 15.
People sometimes commit 'egocentric errors', failing to ignore their own perspective when interpreting others' communication. Training imitation-inhibition, when participants perform the opposite action from another person, facilitates subsequent perspective-taking in adults. This study tested whether imitation-inhibition training also facilitates perspective-taking in 3- to 6-year-olds, an age where egocentric perspective may be particularly influential. Children participated in a 10-min imitation-inhibition, imitation, or non-social-inhibition training (white, n = 25 per condition, 33 female, period: 2018-2021), then the communicative-perspective-taking Director task. Training had a significant effect (F(2, 71) = 3.316, p = .042, η = .085): on critical trials, the imitation-inhibition-group selected the correct object more often than the other groups. Imitation-inhibition training specifically enhanced the perspective-taking process possibly by highlighting the distinction between self and other.
人们有时会犯“自我中心错误”，即在解释他人的交流时无法忽略自己的视角。当参与者执行与另一个人相反的动作时，对模仿的抑制训练会促进成年人后续的换位思考。本研究测试了模仿抑制训练是否也能促进 3 至 6 岁儿童的换位思考，这个年龄段的自我中心视角可能特别有影响力。孩子们参加了 10 分钟的模仿抑制、模仿或非社会抑制训练（每组 25 人，白色，女性 33 人，期间：2018-2021 年），然后是交际视角-taking 导演任务。训练有显著效果（F(2, 71) = 3.316, p =.042, η =.085）：在关键试验中，模仿抑制组选择正确物体的频率高于其他组。模仿抑制训练特别增强了换位思考过程，可能是通过突出自我和他人之间的区别。
