7 results on '"Kanngiesser, Patricia"'
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2. Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?
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Stengelin, Roman, Haun, Daniel B. M., and Kanngiesser, Patricia
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SOCIAL interaction ,PUPPETS ,CHILDREN ,SOCIAL development ,COGNITIVE development ,PEER relations ,SOCIAL perception - Abstract
Interactions with peers are fundamental to socio‐cognitive development, but assessing peer interactions in standardized experiments is challenging. Therefore, researchers commonly utilize puppetry to simulate peers. This Registered Report investigated urban German children's (AgeRange = 3.5–4.5 years; N = 144; 76♀) mind ascriptions and social cognition to test whether they treat puppets like peers, adults, or neither. Children attributed less mind properties to puppets than peers or adults. However, children's social cognition (i.e., normativity, prosociality, and theory of mind) varied little across partners. Puppetry relies on children's ability for pretense, but can provide valid insights into socio‐cognitive development. Implications for using puppets as stand‐ins for peers in developmental research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Children's Respect for Ownership Across Diverse Societies.
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Kanngiesser, Patricia, Rossano, Federico, Zeidler, Henriette, Haun, Daniel, and Tomasello, Michael
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CHILD behavior , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *RESPECT , *SOCIAL skills , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Ownership is a cornerstone of many human societies and can be understood as a cooperative arrangement, where individuals refrain from taking each other's property. Owners can thus trust others to respect their property even in their absence. We investigated this principle in 5- to 7-year-olds (N = 152) from 4 diverse societies. Children participated in a resource task with a peer-partner, where we established ownership by assigning children to one side or the other of an apparatus and by marking resources with colors to help children keep track of them. When retrieving resources in the partner's presence, the majority of children took their own things and respected what belonged to their partner. A proportion of children in all societies also respected ownership in their partner's absence, although the strength of respect varied considerably across societies. We discuss implications for the development of ownership concepts and possible explanations for societal differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. The effect of labour on ownership decisions in two cultures: Developmental evidence from Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Kanngiesser, Patricia, Itakura, Shoji, and Hood, Bruce M.
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CHILDREN , *ADULTS , *CHI-squared test , *CREATIVE ability , *CULTURE , *DECISION making , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL skills , *VIDEO recording , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Creative labour has an effect on children's and adults' ownership decisions in Western cultures. We investigated whether preschoolers and adults from an Eastern culture ( Japan) would show a similar bias. In a first-party task (Experiment 1), in which participants created their own objects, Japanese preschoolers but not adults assigned ownership to creators. When participants watched videos of third-party conflicts between owners of materials and creators (Experiment 2), Japanese adults, but not preschoolers, transferred ownership to creators. In a British comparison group, both preschoolers and adults showed an effect of creative labour in the third-party task. A bias to attribute ownership on the basis of creative labour is thus not specific to Western culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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5. Mealtime Conversations Between Parents and Their 2-Year-Old Children in Five Cultural Contexts.
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Bohn, Manuel, da Silva Vieira, Wilson Filipe, Giner Torréns, Marta, Kärtner, Joscha, Itakura, Shoji, Cavalcante, Lília, Haun, Daniel, Köster, Moritz, and Kanngiesser, Patricia
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FAMILIES & psychology , *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) , *RESEARCH funding , *PARENT-child relationships , *CULTURE , *INTERVIEWING , *STATISTICAL sampling , *NONVERBAL communication , *FAMILY attitudes , *COMMUNICATION , *SOCIAL skills , *METROPOLITAN areas , *RURAL conditions , *MEALS , *COMPARATIVE studies , *LANGUAGE acquisition , *VIDEO recording , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk and gestures as well as their conversational embedding (interlocutors, function, and themes). We found a comparable pattern of communicative interactions across cultural settings, which were modified in ways that are consistent with local norms and values. These results suggest that children encounter similarly structured communicative environments across diverse cultural contexts and will inform theories of language learning. Public Significance Statement: Cultural norms and beliefs structure social interactions and communication. As a consequence, children learn language under very different circumstances. We studied communicative interactions between parents and their children in five diverse cultural contexts. We found a common, child-centered pattern of communication that was modified in line with local norms and values. This suggests that children can rely on similar information sources and learning processes across cultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Children, but not great apes, respect ownership.
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Kanngiesser, Patricia, Rossano, Federico, Frickel, Ramona, Tomm, Anne, and Tomasello, Michael
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HOMINIDS , *RESPECT , *HUMAN behavior , *ACCESS control , *DYADS - Abstract
Access to and control of resources is a major source of costly conflicts. Animals, under some conditions, respect what others control and use (i.e. possession). Humans not only respect possession of resources, they also respect ownership. Ownership can be viewed as a cooperative arrangement, where individuals inhibit their tendency to take others' property on the condition that those others will do the same. We investigated to what degree great apes follow this principle, as compared to human children. We conducted two experiments, in which dyads of individuals could access the same food resources. The main test of respect for ownership was whether individuals would refrain from taking their partner's resources even when the partner could not immediately access and control them. Captive apes (N = 14 dyads) failed to respect their partner's claim on food resources and frequently monopolized the resources when given the opportunity. Human children (N = 14 dyads), tested with a similar apparatus and procedure, respected their partner's claim and made spontaneous verbal references to ownership. Such respect for the property of others highlights the uniquely cooperative nature of human ownership arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. Considering self or others across two cultural contexts: How children's resource allocation is affected by self-construal manipulations.
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Weltzien, Sandra, Marsh, Lauren, Kanngiesser, Patricia, Stuijfzand, Bobby, and Hood, Bruce
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RESOURCE allocation , *EXTENDED families , *CHILDREN , *SELFISHNESS , *GENEROSITY - Abstract
• Subtle self-construal priming has diverse effects sharing in different societies. • Selfishness increases following independence-priming in both India and the UK. • Only Indian children show greater generosity following interdependence-priming. • Differences in self-construals affects how easily children are moved to generosity. • The findings inform effects of sociocultural transformations around the world. Most humans share to some degree. Yet, from middle childhood, sharing behavior varies substantially across societies. Here, for the first time, we explored the effect of self-construal manipulation on sharing decisions in 7- and 8-year-old children from two distinct societies: urban India and urban United Kingdom. Children participated in one of three conditions that focused attention on independence, interdependence, or a control. Sharing was then assessed across three resource allocation games. A focus on independence resulted in reduced generosity in both societies. However, an intriguing societal difference emerged following a focus on interdependence, where only Indian children from traditional extended families displayed greater generosity in one of the resource allocation games. Thus, a focus on independence can move children from diverse societies toward selfishness with relative ease, but a focus on interdependence is very limited in its effectiveness to promote generosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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