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托育服务与亲社会行为：村庄的构建
It makes a village: child care and prosociality
摘要
We examine the relationship between allomaternal care (i.e., care for children by individuals other than the mother) and prosociality (reciprocity and altruism). Motivated by ethnographic evidence of a positive association between allomaternal care and societal trust across cultures, we design an economic experiment to measure the relationship between allomaternal care and cooperative behavior among 820 participants in small scale societies of the Solomon Islands. Our results show that receiving help with child care predicts higher levels of reciprocity towards the helper. This relationship remains robust for mothers even after accounting for participant fixed effects, for the nature of the relationship between mother and helper, and for other forms of mutual assistance. Moreover, help from non-relatives is associated with altruism toward strangers, suggesting a novel channel for the development of impersonal prosociality. Strengthening the case for the importance of allomaternal care for human development, we report suggestive evidence of potential socio-cognitive benefits to children who receive care from non-relatives (based on daylong recordings of 197 children analyzed using a multilingually-trained neural network), as well as societal-level benefits in terms of economic growth. Similar content being viewed by others
中文摘要
我们考察了异母照料（即非母亲个体对儿童的照料）与亲社会性（互惠与利他）之间的关系。受跨文化民族志证据表明异母照料与社会信任呈正相关的启发，我们设计了一项经济实验，以测量所罗门群岛小型社会中820名参与者的异母照料与合作行为之间的关系。研究结果显示，获得育儿帮助预示着对帮助者具有更高水平的互惠行为。即使在控制参与者固定效应、母亲与帮助者之间的关系性质以及其他形式的互助后，这一关系对母亲而言依然稳健。此外，来自非亲属的帮助与对陌生人的利他行为相关，这揭示了非人格化亲社会性发展的新渠道。为强化异母照料对人类发展重要性的论证，我们报告了提示性证据：接受非亲属照料的儿童可能获得社会认知方面的益处（基于对197名儿童全天录音的分析，采用多语言训练的神经网络），以及在社会层面促进经济增长的潜在效益。类似内容被其他人浏览。