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Direct linkRapp, Diotima J.; Engelmann, Jan M.; Herrmann, Esther; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Reputational concerns are known to promote cooperation. Individuals regularly act more prosocially when their behavior is observable by others. Here, we investigate 4- and 5-year-old (N = 144) children's reputational strategies in a competitive group setting. The aim of the current study was to explore whether children's sharing behavior is…
Descriptors: Young Children, Reputation, Peer Groups, Sharing Behavior
Melis, Alicia P.; Altrichter, Kristin; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
Recent studies have shown that in situations where resources have been acquired collaboratively, children at around 3 years of age share mostly equally. We investigated 3-year-olds' sharing behavior with a collaborating partner and a free-riding partner who explicitly expressed her preference not to collaborate. Children shared more equally with…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Sharing Behavior, Young Children, Toddlers
Hamann, Katharina; Bender, Johanna; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The present study investigated young preschoolers' proportional allocation of rewards in 2 different work contexts. We presented 32 pairs of 3.5-year-old peers with a collaborative task to obtain rewards by pulling ropes. In order to establish differences in work input, 1 child's rope was not immediately accessible but had to be retrieved from the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cooperative Learning, Sharing Behavior, Moral Development
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
