St Andrews Research Repository

St Andrews University Home
View Item 
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  • Login
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust

Thumbnail
View/Open
Ploetner_et_al_The_effects_of_collaboration_minimal_groups_accepted_version.pdf (592.6Kb)
Date
11/2015
Author
Plötner, Maria
Over, Harriet
Carpenter, Malinda
Tomasello, Michael
Keywords
Affiliation
Collaboration
Cooperation
Developmental psychology
Minimal groups
Prosociality
Trust
BF Psychology
NDAS
Metadata
Show full item record
Altmetrics Handle Statistics
Altmetrics DOI Statistics
Abstract
Recent theoretical work has highlighted potential links between interpersonal collaboration and group membership in the evolution of human sociality. Here we compared the effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on young children's prosocial behavior (i.e., helping and resource allocation), liking, affiliation, and trust. In a design that matched as closely as possible these two ways of connecting with others, we showed that 5-year-olds' behavior was affected similarly by collaboration and minimal-group membership; both increased children's preference for their partners on multiple dimensions and produced overall effects of a similar magnitude. In contrast, 3.5-year-olds did not have a strong preference for either collaborators or minimal in-group members. Thus, both collaboration and minimal-group membership are similarly effective in their influence on children's prosocial behavior and social preferences.
Citation
Plötner , M , Over , H , Carpenter , M & Tomasello , M 2015 , ' The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust ' , Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , vol. 139 , pp. 161-173 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.05.008
Publication
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.05.008
ISSN
0022-0965
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.05.008
Description
The authors thank the Economic and Social Research Council–United Kingdom (ESRC) for supporting H. Over (Grant ES/K006702/1)
Collections
  • University of St Andrews Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10015

Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Advanced Search

Browse

All of RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunderThis CollectionBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunder

My Account

Login

Open Access

To find out how you can benefit from open access to research, see our library web pages and Open Access blog. For open access help contact: openaccess@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Accessibility

Read our Accessibility statement.

How to submit research papers

The full text of research papers can be submitted to the repository via Pure, the University's research information system. For help see our guide: How to deposit in Pure.

Electronic thesis deposit

Help with deposit.

Repository help

For repository help contact: Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Give Feedback

Cookie policy

This site may use cookies. Please see Terms and Conditions.

Usage statistics

COUNTER-compliant statistics on downloads from the repository are available from the IRUS-UK Service. Contact us for information.

© University of St Andrews Library

University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter