What leads humans to divide the social world into groups, preferring their own group and disfavoring others? Experiments with infants and young children suggest these tendencies are based on predispositions that emerge early in life and depend, in part, on natural language. Young infants prefer to look at a person who previously spoke their native language. Older infants preferentially accept toys from native-language speakers, and preschool children preferentially select native-language speakers as friends. Variations in accent are sufficient to evoke these social preferences, which are observed in infants before they produce or comprehend speech and are exhibited by children even when they comprehend the foreign-accented speech. Early-developing preferences for native-language speakers may serve as a foundation for later-developing preferences and conflicts among social groups.

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:是什么导致人类将社会世界分成群体,偏爱自己的群体而不利于他人?对婴幼儿进行的实验表明,这些趋势是基于生命早期出现的倾向,并且部分取决于自然语言。幼儿更喜欢看以前讲母语的人。大一点的婴儿优先接受母语使用者的玩具,而学龄前儿童则优先选择母语使用者。口音变化足以唤起这些社会偏好,这种偏好在婴儿产生或理解语音之前就已经观察到,并且即使他们理解具有外国口音的语音,也会被儿童表现出来。较早发展的母语使用者的偏爱可以作为较晚发展的偏爱和社会群体之间冲突的基础。

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