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Bar Levy-Friedman; Tehila Kogut – Child Development, 2025
This study examined children's self-assessment of their prosociality, relative to average peers, in situations where the recipient is described as "needy" versus "not needy" (at a school of average socioeconomic level in south Israel; N = 158; aged 6-12 years; 51% males, December-May 2021). The results show that older children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior
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Chernyak, Nadia; Harris, Paul L.; Cordes, Sara – Child Development, 2022
Recent work has probed the developmental mechanisms that promote fair sharing. This work investigated 2.5- to 5.5-year-olds' (N = 316; 52% female; 79% White; data collected 2016-2018) sharing behavior in relation to three cognitive correlates: number knowledge, working memory, and cognitive control. In contrast to working memory and cognitive…
Descriptors: Computation, Preschool Children, Number Concepts, Short Term Memory
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Malti, Tina; Ongley, Sophia F.; Peplak, Joanna; Chaparro, Maria P.; Buchmann, Marlis; Zuffianò, Antonio; Cui, Lixian – Child Development, 2016
This study examined the role of sympathy, guilt, and moral reasoning in helping, cooperation, and sharing in a 6-year, three-wave longitudinal study involving 175 children (M[subscript age] 6.10, 9.18, and 12.18 years). Primary caregivers reported on children's helping and cooperation; sharing was assessed behaviorally. Child sympathy was assessed…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Altruism, Anxiety, Morale
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Yu, Jing; Zhu, Liqi; Leslie, Alan M. – Child Development, 2016
This study investigated the motivational and social-cognitive foundations (i.e., inequality aversion, in-group bias, and theory of mind) that underlie the development of sharing behavior among 3- to 9-year-old Chinese children (N = 122). Each child played two mini-dictator games against an in-group member (friend) and an out-group member…
Descriptors: Social Development, Cognitive Development, Theory of Mind, Bias
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Brownell, Celia A.; Iesue, Stephanie S.; Nichols, Sara R.; Svetlova, Margarita – Child Development, 2013
To examine early developments in other-oriented resource sharing, fifty-one 18- and 24-month-old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an adult playmate who had none. On each task the playmate communicated her desire for the items in a series of progressively more explicit cues. Twenty-four-month-olds…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Sharing Behavior, Ownership, Child Development
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Karasik, Lana B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Adolph, Karen E. – Child Development, 2011
Associations between infants' transition to walking and object activities were examined. Fifty infants were observed longitudinally during home observations. At 11 months, all infants were crawlers; at 13 months, half became walkers. Over age, infants increased their total time with objects and frequency of sharing objects with mothers.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Object Manipulation, Infants, Sharing Behavior
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Tomasello, Michael; Carpenter, Malinda; Liszkowski, Ulf – Child Development, 2007
The current article proposes a new theory of infant pointing involving multiple layers of intentionality and shared intentionality. In the context of this theory, evidence is presented for a rich interpretation of prelinguistic communication, that is, one that posits that when 12-month-old infants point for an adult they are in some sense trying…
Descriptors: Infants, Nonverbal Communication, Cooperation, Sharing Behavior
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Mundy, Peter; Block, Jessica; Delgado, Christine; Pomares, Yuly; Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan; Parlade, Meaghan Venezia – Child Development, 2007
This study examined the development of joint attention in 95 infants assessed between 9 and 18 months of age. Infants displayed significant test-retest reliability on measures of following gaze and gestures (responding to joint attention, RJA) and in their use of eye contact to establish social attention coordination (initiating joint attention,…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Development
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Gummerum, Michaela; Keller, Monika; Takezawa, Masanori; Mata, Jutta – Child Development, 2008
This study interconnects developmental psychology of fair and moral behavior with economic game theory. One hundred eighty-nine 9- to 17-year-old students shared a sum of money as individuals and groups with another anonymous group (dictator game). Individual allocations did not differ by age but did by gender and were predicted by participants'…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Economics, Developmental Psychology, Students