Development of empathy and morality in young children : An longitudinal

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20330150
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: ITAKURA Shoji 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50211735)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2011
• Keywords: 道徳 / 共感 / 認知発達 / 心の理論

Research Abstract

Relationship between social perception in early infancy and the development of pro-social behavior, such as empathy and moral, and"theory of mind"and emotion comprehension were investigated longitudinally until the aged 6. Results showed that the score of theory of mind scale and emotion comprehension scale increased along the age. There some correlation between early face perception and later emotion comprehension. Moreover, there is inclination that 10-month-old infants show sympathetic behavior according to the study of geometric figure moving paradimg.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Can young children learn words from a robot (2011)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Shimada, Y., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Interaction Studies Volume: 12 Pages: 107-119
  • DOI: DOI:10.1075/is.12.1.04mor
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Learning to count begins in infancy : Evidence from 18-month-olds visual preferences (2011)
  • Author(s): Slaughter, V., Itakura, S., Kutsuki, A. & Siegal, M.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences Volume: 278 Pages: 2979-2984
  • DOI: DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.2602
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Cultural differences in the development of cognitive shifting : East-West comparison (2011)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., Evans, A. D., Hiraki, K., Itakura, S., & Lee, K.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • DOI: Doi:10.1016/j/jecp.2011.09.001
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Do young and old preschoolers exhibit response bias due to different mechanisms? Investigating children's response time. (2011)
  • Author(s): Okanda, M. & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume: 110 Pages: 453-460
  • DOI: Doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.012
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Moral contagion attitudes towards potential organ transplants in British and Japanese adults (2011)
  • Author(s): Hood, B. M., Gjersoe, N. L., Donnelly, K., Byers, A., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cognition and Culture Volume: 11 Pages: 269-286
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Executive function in young children and chimpanzees(Pan troglodytes) Evidence from a non-verbal Dimensional Change Card Sort task. (2011)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y. Tanaka, M. Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Genetic Psychology Volume: 172 Pages: 252-265
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 赤ちゃんから見た世界-発達科学の挑戦 (2011)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 哲学研究 Volume: 591 Pages: 1-21
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 乳児期における社会的認知児童心理学の進歩 (2011)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 児童心理学の進歩(金子書房) Pages: 57-76
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Developmental correspondence between action prediction and motor ability in early infancy (2011)
  • Author(s): Kanakogi, Y. & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Nat. Commun
  • DOI: Doi:10.1038/ncomms1342
• [Journal Article] 社会的認知の連続性-初期の社会的刺激に対する反応バイアイスから心の理論へ (2011)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: チャイルドサイエンス Volume: 17 Pages: 10-14
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Japanese and American Children's Reasoning about Accepting Credit for Prosocial Behavior (2011)
  • Author(s): Heyman, G., Itakura, S., & Lee, K.
  • Journal Title: Social Development Volume: 20 Pages: 171-184
  • DOI: Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00578.x
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 基礎研究から発達支援へ:その理論的考察 (2010)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 別冊「発達(ミネルヴァ書房) Volume: 31 Pages: 2-9
• [Journal Article] Language and cognitive shifting : evidence from young monolingual and bilingual children (2010)
  • Author(s): Okanda, M., Moriguchi, Y., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Psychological Reports. Volume: 107 Pages: 68-78
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Culture shapes efficiency of facial age judgments (2010)
  • Author(s): Anzeures, G., Ge, L., Wang, Z., Itakura, s., & Lee, K.
  • Journal Title: PLoSONE Volume: 5(7) Pages: 11679
  • DOI: Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011679
• [Journal Article] Cues that trigger social transmission of disinhibition in young children (2010)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., Minato, T., Ishiguro, H., Shinohara, I. & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume: 107 Pages: 181-187
  • DOI: Doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.04.018
• [Journal Article] The link between perception and action in early infancy : From the viewpoint of the direct matching hypothesis (2010)
  • Author(s): Kanakogi, Y., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Japanese Psychological Research Volume: 52 Pages: 121-131
  • DOI: Doi:10.1111/j.1468-5884.2010.00429.x
• [Journal Article] When do children exhibit a yes bias (2010)
  • Author(s): Okanda, M., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Child Development Volume: 81 Pages: 568-580
• [Journal Article] Bilingualism accentuates children's conversational understanding (2010)
  • Author(s): Siegal, M., Surian, L., Matsuo, A., Geraci, A., Iozzi, L., Okumura, Y. Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: PLoSONE Volume: 5(2) Pages: e9004
  • DOI: Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009004
• [Journal Article] Children perseverate to a human's actions but not to robot actions (2010)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Developmental Science Volume: 13 Pages: 62-68
  • DOI: DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00860
• [Journal Article] 内省能力と二次的信念の理解との発達的関連:再帰的な思考の役割から (2009)
  • Author(s): 鹿子木康弘・森口佑介・板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 発達心理学研究 Volume: 20 Pages: 419-427
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 赤ちゃんは何でも知っている-比較認知発達科学から見た赤ちゃんの脳と心- (2009)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: iliholi Volume: 1 Pages: 49-58
• [Journal Article] 子どもの社会性の発達 (2009)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: アスペルガー症候群の子どもの発達理解と発達援助別冊 Volume: 30 Pages: 70-81
• [Journal Article] 乳児の目標帰属研究とその神経基盤 (2009)
  • Author(s): 鹿子木康弘・板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 心理学評論 Volume: 52 Pages: 63-74
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Neural correlates of the judgment of lying : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study (2009)
  • Author(s): Harada T, Itakura S, Xu F, Lee K, Nakashita S, Saito DN, & Sadato, N.
  • Journal Title: Neuroscience Research Volume: 63 Pages: 24-34
  • DOI: Doi:10.1016/j.neures.2008.09.010
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] An integrated view of empathy : Psychology philosophy, and neuroscience (2009)
  • Author(s): Nakao, H. & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Volume: 43 Pages: 42-52
• [Journal Article] The role of neuroimaging in developmental social psychology (2008)
  • Author(s): Sadato, N., Morita, T., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Brain Imaging and Behavior Volume: 2 Pages: 335-342
  • DOI: Doi:10.1007/s11682-008-9044-1
• [Journal Article] メタ認知には人にのみ固有の現象か-メタ認知の系統発生と個体発生 (2008)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 現代のエスプリ Volume: 497 Pages: 29-37
• [Journal Article] 他者の心を理解する脳の仕組み (2008)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Journal Title: 教育と医学 Volume: 9月号 Pages: 4-11
• [Journal Article] How to build an intentional android : Infants' imitation of a robot's goal-directed actions (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Ishida, H., Kanda, T., Shimada, Y., Ishiguro, H., & Lee, K.
  • Journal Title: Infancy Volume: 13 Pages: 519-532
  • DOI: Doi:10.1080/15250000802329503
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Development of mentalizing and communication : From viewpoint of developmental cybernetics and developmental cognitive neuroscience (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Journal Title: IEICE TRANS. COMMUN Pages: E91-B
  • DOI: Doi:10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.7.2109
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] One-month-old infants'sensitivity to social contingency from mothers and strangers : a pilot study (2008)
  • Author(s): Okanda, M. & Itakura, S
  • Journal Title: Psychological Reports Volume: 102 Pages: 293-298
• [Journal Article] The Role of the Right Prefrontal Cortex in Self-Evaluation of the Face : A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study (2008)
  • Author(s): Morita, T., Itakura, S., Saito, D., Nakashita, S., Harada, T., Kochiyama, T., Sadato, N
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Volume: 20 Pages: 342-355
• [Journal Article] Young children's difficulty with inhibitory control in a social context (2008)
  • Author(s): Moriguchi, Y. & Itakura, S
  • Journal Title: Japanese Psychological Research Volume: 50 Pages: 87-92
  • DOI: Doi:10.1111./j.1468-5884.2008.00364
• [Journal Article] Differences in Response Bias Among Younger and Older Preschoolers : Investigating Japanese and Hungarian Preschoolers
  • Author(s): Okanda, M., Somogyi, E., & Itakura, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 表情と無意味音声のクロスモーダル情動認知
  • Author(s): 荒井宏太・井上康之・小野和也・板倉昭二・北崎充晃
  • Journal Title: モダリティ情報の強度と信頼性の効果の検討認知科学
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Powerful influence from humans in infancy (2012)
  • Author(s): Okumura, Y., Kanakogi, Y., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
  • Place of Presentation: Budapest, Hungary
  • Year and Date: 20120112-14
• [Presentation] Sympathetic stance in preverbal infants (2012)
  • Author(s): Kanakogi, Y., Okumura, Y., Inoue, Y., Kitazaki, M., Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
  • Place of Presentation: Budapest, Hungary
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-14
• [Presentation] Continuity of social cognition : Progress report of cohort study from Japan (2012)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at China Medical University
  • Place of Presentation: Taichung
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-23
• [Presentation] Understanding an agent : Developmental Cybernetics view (2012)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at National Cheng-Chin University
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-21
• [Presentation] Understanding anagent : Developmental Cybernetics view (2011)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Normal University Lecture
  • Place of Presentation: Zhejiang
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-20
• [Presentation] Development of understanding human body movement in infancy (2011)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Morita, T., Katayama, N., & Kitazaki, M
  • Organizer: Workshop "Undersatnding of agents : Emotion, apperance, and movment" at 10th Hawaii International Conference on Social Science
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-03
• [Presentation] Development of social mind : Perspective from Developmental Cybernetics (2011)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited speaker in 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
  • Place of Presentation: Budapest
  • Year and Date: 2011-01-15
• [Presentation] Televised Social Interaction and Object Learning From a Human or a Robot (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Watanabe, H., Zhu, J., Kitazaki
  • Organizer: International Conference on Infant Studies(ICIS)
  • Place of Presentation: Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Year and Date: 20100311-14
• [Presentation] Development of social brain (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Liu, D., & Meltzoff, A
  • Organizer: Japan-US Brain Research Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20100123-24
• [Presentation] Development of Social Mind : Perspective from Developmental Cybernetics (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Japan-US Brain Research Workshop "Development of social brain."
  • Place of Presentation: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20100123-24
• [Presentation] Perception of social causality : A developmental perspective (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: 9th Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu, Hawaii USA
  • Year and Date: 20100102-05
• [Presentation] Development of social brain. Mini Symposium "Introduction of Japan-US Brain Research Cooperative Program" (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Kobe International Convention Center
  • Place of Presentation: Neuro, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20100102-04
• [Presentation] Development of social mind : A perspective from' Developmental Cybernetics' (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at Graduate Institute of Neural and Cognitive Science, China Medical School
  • Place of Presentation: Taichung
  • Year and Date: 2010-10-22
• [Presentation] Origin of social mind (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at the Department of Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei University of Education
  • Year and Date: 2010-10-19
• [Presentation] Development of social mind : A perspective from "Developmental Cybernetic" (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Keynote address for British Psychological Society Meeting, Developmental Section
  • Place of Presentation: London
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-13
• [Presentation] Continuity of social mind : a cohort study from Japan (2010)
  • Author(s): Itakurs, S
  • Organizer: Invited talk at British Psychological Society Meeting, Developmental Section
  • Place of Presentation: London
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-13
• [Presentation] Longitudinal Study of Early Social Perception in Japanese Children (2009)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Ogura, T., Kutsuki, A., Kuroki, M.
  • Organizer: XIVth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Mykolas Romeris University
  • Place of Presentation: Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Year and Date: 20090818-22
• [Presentation] Understanding Others : Challenge from the Developmental Cybernetics (2009)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: 8th Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu, Hawaii USA
  • Year and Date: 20090604-07
• [Presentation] Development of mentalizing in human infants (2009)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited lecture in "Emotional animals, Sensible humans"
  • Place of Presentation: International GCOE symposium of Keio University
  • Year and Date: 20090000
• [Presentation] Perception of Social Causality in Infants and Adults (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Morita, T., Morito, Y., Nakagawa, K., Sadato, N.
  • Organizer: XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies
  • Place of Presentation: Vancouver, Canada
  • Year and Date: 20080527-29
• [Presentation] Understanding self and others : Studies from nonhuman primates, robotics, and human children (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited address at Zhejiang Normal University
  • Place of Presentation: Zhejiang
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Presentation] Social transmission : Whom do you trust? (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S
  • Organizer: Invited Talk at Selective Trust Work Shop
  • Place of Presentation: Kingston, Canada
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Presentation] The role of Neuroimaging in Developmental Social Psychology (2008)
  • Author(s): Sadato, N., Morita, T., Itakura
  • Organizer: IMBES Workshop on Neuroeducation : New Perspectives in Teaching and Learning
  • Place of Presentation: Erice, Sicily, Italy)
  • Year and Date: 20080000
• [Book] 文化の継承メカニズム中尾央・三中信宏 (2012)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二・中尾央
  • Total Pages: 119-144
  • Publisher: 文化系統学への招待勁草書房
• [Book] チンパンジーのこころ、人間のこころ (2011)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Publisher: 日本心理学会編
• [Book] ロボットに心は宿るか-他者に心を見出す過程開一夫・長谷川寿一 (2009)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Publisher: ソーシャル・ブレインズ東京大学出版会
• [Book] Emergence of the social mind : Two perspectives. In S. Itakura & K. Fujita, Origins of the social mind : Evolutionary and developmental views (2009)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S.
  • Publisher: Springer
• [Book] 私という意識の発生仲真紀子(編)自己心理学4認知心理学へのアプローチ (2008)
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Publisher: 金子書房
• [Book] Discovering mind : development of mentalizing in human children. S. Itakura & K. Fujita(Eds.), Origins of the social mind : Evolutionary and developmental Views (2008)
  • Author(s): Itakura, S, Okanda, M., & Moriguchi Y.
  • Total Pages: 179-198
  • Publisher: Springer
• [Book] The development of mentalizing in human children. In S. Watanabe(Ed.), Comparative perspectives on animal and human emotion
  • Author(s): Itakura, S., Moriguchi, Y., & Okanda, M.
  • Publisher: Springer
• [Book] 注意と発達三浦・原田(編)「現代の認知心理学第4巻」
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Publisher: 北大路書房
• [Book] 進化と行動大藪泰(編著)現代心理学入門
  • Author(s): 板倉昭二
  • Publisher: 川島書店