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Melis, Alicia P., Grocke, Patricia, Kalbitz, Josefine and Tomasello, Michael (2016) One for you, one for me : humans’ unique turn-taking skills. Psychological Science, 27 (7). pp. 987-996. doi:10.1177/0956797616644070 ISSN 0956-7976.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797616644070
Abstract
Long-term collaborative relationships require that any jointly produced resources be shared in mutually satisfactory
ways. Prototypically, this sharing involves partners dividing up simultaneously available resources, but sometimes the
collaboration makes a resource available to only one individual, and any sharing of resources must take place across
repeated instances over time. Here, we show that beginning at 5 years of age, human children stabilize cooperation
in such cases by taking turns across instances of obtaining a resource. In contrast, chimpanzees do not take turns in
this way, and so their collaboration tends to disintegrate over time. Alternating turns in obtaining a collaboratively
produced resource does not necessarily require a prosocial concern for the other, but rather requires only a strategic
judgment that partners need incentives to continue collaborating. These results suggest that human beings are adapted
for thinking strategically in ways that sustain long-term cooperative relationships and that are absent in their nearest
primate relatives.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Q Science > QL Zoology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Problem solving , Chimpanzees , Reciprocity (Psychology) , Interpersonal relations , Resource allocation , Children--Attitudes | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Science | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0956-7976 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | July 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||||
Number: | 7 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 987-996 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0956797616644070 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 August 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 August 2016 |
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