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2. Worth the wait: Children trade off delay and reward in self‐ and other‐benefiting decisions

Author

Liu, Shari, Gonzalez, Gorana, and Warneken, Felix

Subjects
Male, Opportunity cost, Process (engineering), Cognitive Neuroscience, Decision Making, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Intertemporal choice, Trade-off, Choice Behavior, 050105 experimental psychology, Reward, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Humans, Psychology, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Social Behavior, Mechanism (biology), Self, 05 social sciences, FOS: Psychology, Prosocial behavior, Child, Preschool, Developmental Psychology, Female, Social psychology, 050104 developmental & child psychology
Abstract

Human prosocial behaviors are supported by early-emerging psychological processes that detect and fulfill the needs of others. However, little is known about the mechanisms that enable children to deliver benefits to others at costs to the self, which requires weighing other-regarding and self-serving preferences. We used an intertemporal choice paradigm to systematically study and compare these behaviors in 5-year-old children. Our results show that other-benefiting and self-benefiting behavior share a common decision-making process that integrates delay and reward. Specifically, we found that children sought to minimize delay and maximize reward, and traded off delays against rewards, regardless of whether these rewards were for the children themselves or another child. However, we found that children were more willing to invest their time to benefit themselves than someone else. Together, these findings show that from childhood, other- and self-serving decisions are supported by a general mechanism that flexibly integrates information about the magnitude of rewards, and the opportunity costs of pursuing them. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/r8S0DGe7f8Q.

Published
2018

7. Children's Norm Enforcement in Their Interactions With Peers

Author

Koeymen, Bahar, Lieven, Elena, Engemann, Denis A., Rakoczy, Hannes, Warneken, Felix, Tomasello, Michael, Koeymen, Bahar, Lieven, Elena, Engemann, Denis A., Rakoczy, Hannes, Warneken, Felix, and Tomasello, Michael

Abstract

This study investigates how children negotiate social norms with peers. In Study 1, 48 pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 96) and in Study 2, 48 pairs of 5- and 7-year-olds (N = 96) were presented with sorting tasks with conflicting instructions (one child by color, the other by shape) or identical instructions. Three-year-olds differed from older children: They were less selective for the contexts in which they enforced norms, and they (as well as the older children to a lesser extent) used grammatical constructions objectifying the norms (It works like this rather than You must do it like this). These results suggested that children's understanding of social norms becomes more flexible during the preschool years.

Published
2014

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