Young children police group members at personal cost.
J Exp Psychol Gen
; 149(1): 182-191, 2020 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Humans' evolutionary success has depended in part on their willingness to punish, at personal cost, bad actors who have not harmed them directly-a behavior known as costly third-party punishment. The present studies examined the psychological processes underlying this behavior from a developmental perspective, using a novel, naturalistic method. In these studies (ages 3-6, total N = 225), participants of all ages enacted costly punishment, and rates of punishment increased with age. In addition, younger children (ages 3-4), when in a position of authority, were more likely to punish members of their own group, whereas older children (ages 5-6) showed no group- or authority-based differences. These findings demonstrate the developmental emergence of costly punishment, and show how a sense of authority can foster the kind of group-regulatory behavior that costly punishment may have evolved to serve. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Asunto principal:
Castigo
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Conducta Social
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Conducta Infantil
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Conducta Cooperativa
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Procesos de Grupo
Tipo de estudio:
Health_economic_evaluation
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
J Exp Psychol Gen
Año:
2020
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Article