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.

I won't tell : Young children show loyalty to their group by keeping group secrets

Thumbnail
View/Open
Misch_et_al_in_press_accepted_version_Children_s_Loyalty.pdf (458.6Kb)
Date
02/2016
Author
Misch, Antonia
Over, Harriet
Carpenter, Malinda
Keywords
Loyalty
Group membership
Group norms
Secrecy
Commitment
Minimal group paradigm
BF Psychology
NDAS
Metadata
Show full item record
Altmetrics Handle Statistics
Altmetrics DOI Statistics
Abstract
Group loyalty is highly valued. However, little is known about young children’s loyal behavior. This study tested whether 4- and 5-year-olds (N = 96) remain loyal to their group even when betraying it would be materially advantageous. Children and four puppets were allocated to novel groups. Two of these puppets (either in-group or out-group members) then told children a group secret and urged them not to disclose the secret. Another puppet (not assigned to either group) then bribed children with stickers to tell the secret. Across ages, children were significantly less likely to reveal the secret in the in-group condition than in the out-group condition. Thus, even young children are willing to pay a cost to be loyal to their group.
Citation
Misch , A , Over , H & Carpenter , M 2016 , ' I won't tell : Young children show loyalty to their group by keeping group secrets ' , Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , vol. 142 , pp. 96-106 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.016
Publication
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.016
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 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.016
Description
Harriet Over was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/K006702/1).
Collections
  • University of St Andrews Research
URL
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096515002209#appd002
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10665

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

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

  • Topics in computational group theory : primitive permutation groups and matrix group normalisers 

    Coutts, Hannah Jane (University of St Andrews, 2011-11) - Thesis
    Part I of this thesis presents methods for finding the primitive permutation groups of degree d, where 2500 ≤ d < 4096, using the O'Nan-Scott Theorem and Aschbacher's theorem. Tables of the groups G are given for each ...
  • What is a group? Young children's perceptions of different types of groups and group entitativity 

    Plötner, Maria; Over, Harriet; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael (2016-03-24) - Journal article
    To date, developmental research on groups has focused mainly on in-group biases and intergroup relations. However, little is known about children’s general understanding of social groups and their perceptions of different ...
  • The construction of finite soluble factor groups of finitely presented groups and its application 

    Wegner, Alexander (University of St Andrews, 1992) - Thesis
    Computational group theory deals with the design, analysis and computer implementation of algorithms for solving computational problems involving groups, and with the applications of the programs produced to interesting ...
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