Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later.
Nat Commun
; 9(1): 4705, 2018 11 20.
Article
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| ID: mdl-30459305
ABSTRACT
Early childhood educational investment produces positive effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, health, and socio-economic success. However, the effects of such interventions on social decision-making later in life are unknown. We recalled participants from one of the oldest randomized controlled studies of early childhood investment-the Abecedarian Project (ABC)-to participate in well-validated interactive economic games that probe social norm enforcement and planning. We show that in a repeated-play ultimatum game, ABC participants who received high-quality early interventions strongly reject unequal division of money across players (disadvantageous or advantageous) even at significant cost to themselves. Using a multi-round trust game and computational modeling of social exchange, we show that the same intervention participants also plan further into the future. These findings suggest that high quality early childhood investment can result in long-term changes in social decision-making and promote social norm enforcement in order to reap future benefits.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Rememoração Mental
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Tomada de Decisões
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Normas Sociais
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Investimentos em Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nat Commun
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
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CIENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos