Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity

Young children make sophisticated social and normative inferences based on proportional reasoning. We explored the possibility that proportional cues also help children learn from and about their own generosity. Across two experiments, 3- to 4-year-olds had the...

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Main Authors: Nadia Chernyak, Bertilia Y. Trieu, Tamar Kushnir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-02-01
Series:Open Mind
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OPMI_a_00004