Understanding what infants know about social life is a growing enterprise. Indeed, one of the most exciting developments within psychological science over the past decade is the view that infants may come equipped with knowledge about "good" and "bad" and about "us" and "them." At the heart of this view is a seminal set of studies indicating that infants prefer helpers to hinderers and similar to dissimilar others. What a growing number of researchers now believe is that these preferences may be based on innate (i.e., unlearned) social knowledge. In this article, I consider how decades of research in developmental psychology can lead to a different way to make sense of this popular body of work. As I make connections between old observations and new theorizing-and between classic findings and contemporary research-I consider how the same preferences that are thought to emanate from innate social knowledge may instead reflect social knowledge that infants can rapidly build as they pursue relationships with their caregivers. I offer this perspective with hopes that it will inspire future work that supports or questions the ideas sketched out here and, by doing so, will broaden an understanding of the origins of social knowledge.

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连接社会知识起源上的点。

了解婴儿对社交生活的了解是一项不断发展的事业。的确，在过去的十年中，心理学界最激动人心的发展之一是，婴儿可能具备有关“好”和“坏”以及“我们”和“他们”的知识。这种观点的核心是一系列开创性的研究，这些研究表明婴儿更喜欢帮助者而不是阻碍者，并且与其他相似的人相似。现在越来越多的研究人员认为，这些偏好可能是基于天生的（即未学习的）社会知识。在本文中，我考虑了发展心理学的数十年研究如何导致一种不同的方式来理解这种流行的工作方式。当我在旧的观察与新的理论之间，经典的发现与当代研究之间建立联系时，我在思考那些与生俱来的社会知识所产生的相同偏好反而会反映出婴儿在追求与自己的关系时可以迅速建立的社会知识。照顾者。我提供这一观点，希望它能激发未来的工作，支持或质疑此处提出的想法，并以此扩大对社会知识起源的理解。