Developmental Origins of "We": Empirical Approaches to the First-person Plural.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26280049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Hashiya Kazuhide 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20324593)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 松井 智子 東京学芸大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 教授 (20296792) ; 小林 洋美 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 研究員 (30464390)
• Research Collaborator: MENG Xianwei 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院大学院 ; UTO Yusuke 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院大学院 ; MAEYAMA Kouki 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院大学院
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: わたしたち / 発達 / 社会性 / コミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study empirically approached the developmental origin of the concept of "We", the first-person plural. To approach the development of production of "we", the authors analyzed data derived from Corpus. To approach responsive aspect, the authors developed a new experimental paradigm that require the participants to portion the reward between 2 agents, after experiences the true/selfish/altruistic utterance that included "we" and other pronouns (I/he(she)=other). TD children robustly showed a tendency to reflect the utterance on sharing, while ASD children did not show such tendency.

Free Research Field

比較発達心理学