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Predictors of Children's Prosocial Lie-Telling: Motivation, Socialization Variables, and Moral Understanding
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Popliger, Mina; Talwar, Victoria; Crossman, Angela – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Children tell prosocial lies for self- and other-oriented reasons. However, it is unclear how motivational and socialization factors affect their lying. Furthermore, it is unclear whether children's moral understanding and evaluations of prosocial lie scenarios (including perceptions of vignette characters' feelings) predict their actual prosocial…
Descriptors: Socialization, Interpersonal Communication, Student Attitudes, Models
Observational Learning of Tool Use in Children: Investigating Cultural Spread through Diffusion Chains and Learning Mechanisms through Ghost Displays
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Hopper, Lydia M.; Flynn, Emma G.; Wood, Lara A. N.; Whiten, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In the first of two experiments, we demonstrate the spread of a novel form of tool use across 20 "cultural generations" of child-to-child transmission. An experimentally seeded technique spread with 100% fidelity along twice as many "generations" as has been investigated in recent exploratory "diffusion" experiments of this type. This contrasted…
Descriptors: Socialization, Population Distribution, Imitation, Observational Learning
The Modeling of Sharing: Effects Associated with Vicarious Reinforcement, Symbolization, Age, and Generalization
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Elliott, Rogers; Vasta, Ross – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Age Differences, Imitation, Matched Groups, Models