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Power grabbed or granted : children’s allocation of resources in social power situations
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Cheng, Nanhua, Wan, Yingjia, An, Jing, Gummerum, Michaela and Zhu, Liqi (2021) Power grabbed or granted : children’s allocation of resources in social power situations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210 . 105192. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105192 ISSN 0022-0965.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105192
Abstract
Notwithstanding alternative ways of obtaining power, social power is mostly commonly acquired through either a dominance approach, where power is grabbed by the powerholder, or a prestige approach, where power is granted by group members. Although children’s attitude toward power in the dominance situation has been studied, little is known about how children understand and distinguish different ways of obtaining power. We examined the understanding of power in children aged 4–8 years by their resource allocation behavior in two social power acquisition situations. In Study 1, 4- to 8-year-olds (N = 123) gradually shifted from distributing more to the powerholder to showing no preference for either party (in the prestige situation) or to distributing more to the subordinates (in the dominance situation) as they age. Older children (6–8 years), but not 4- and 5-year-olds, were more likely to favor the powerholders in the prestige situation than in the dominance situation. In Study 2, when power did not produce unfair results, 7- and 8-year-olds (N = 48) favored the powerholder in the prestige situation but showed no preference in the dominance situation. The results suggest that children’s attitudes toward the two ways of acquiring power are gradually differentiated with age, and children’s resource allocation in the power situations is influenced by the way of acquiring power and children’s equity concern.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Power (Social sciences), Resource allocation -- Psychological aspects, Economics -- Mathematical models, Decision making -- Psychological aspects, Child development, Dominance (Psychology), Children -- Attitudes | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2021 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 210 | |||||||||
| Article Number: | 105192 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105192 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 May 2021 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 June 2022 | |||||||||
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