Aruguete M S, Mason W A
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0029, USA.
Psychol Rep. 1996 Oct;79(2):603-11. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.2.603.
7 groups of squirrel monkeys were observed to assess the effect of infants on social interactions and interanimal distances among adult members of their natal groups. Each group contained one or two infants, 5 to 7 months of age at the start of the study. Infants initiated affiliative and playful interactions with all adults, whereas adults directed few mostly antagonistic, interactions toward infants. Following the removal of infants from groups, distances between adults decreased and adult affiliative interactions increased more than 100%. The results indicate that infants within the age range examined can have a pervasive, primarily inhibitory, influence on adult social relationships.
观察了7组松鼠猴，以评估婴儿对其出生群体成年成员之间社交互动和动物间距离的影响。每组包含一到两个婴儿，研究开始时年龄为5至7个月。婴儿发起了与所有成年动物的亲和性和嬉戏性互动，而成年动物对婴儿的互动很少，大多是对抗性的。在将婴儿从群体中移除后，成年动物之间的距离减小，成年动物的亲和性互动增加了100%以上。结果表明，在所研究的年龄范围内，婴儿对成年动物的社会关系可能具有普遍的、主要是抑制性的影响。
