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Warneken, F., Lohse, K., Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2011) Young children share the spoils after collaboration. Psychological Science, Volume 22 (Number 2). pp. 267-273. doi:10.1177/0956797610395392 ISSN 0956-7976.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797610395392
Abstract
Egalitarian behavior is considered to be a species-typical component of human cooperation. Human adults tend to share resources equally, even if they have the opportunity to keep a larger portion for themselves. Recent experiments have suggested that this tendency emerges fairly late in human ontogeny, not before 6 or 7 years of age. Here we show that 3-year-old children share mostly equally with a peer after they have worked together actively to obtain rewards in a collaboration task, even when those rewards could easily be monopolized. These findings contrast with previous findings from a similar experiment with chimpanzees, who tended to monopolize resources whenever they could. The potentially species-unique tendency of humans to share equally emerges early in ontogeny, perhaps originating in collaborative interactions among peers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Science | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0956-7976 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 22 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 267-273 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0956797610395392 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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