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Three-year-olds' understanding of the consequences of joint commitments

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04/09/2013
Author
Graefenhain, Maria
Carpenter, Malinda
Tomasello, Michael
Keywords
YOUNG-CHILDREN
INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES
SHARED INTENTION
COOPERATION
GOALS
GAMES
LIES
CHIMPANZEES
FAIRNESS
SIBLINGS
BF Psychology
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Here we investigate the extent of children's understanding of the joint commitments inherent in joint activities. Three-year-old children either made a joint commitment to assemble a puzzle with a puppet partner, or else the child and puppet each assembled their own puzzle. Afterwards, children who had made the joint commitment were more likely to stop and wait for their partner on their way to fetch something, more likely to spontaneously help their partner when needed, and more likely to take over their partner's role when necessary. There was no clear difference in children's tendency to tattle on their partner's cheating behavior or their tendency to distribute rewards equally at the end. It thus appears that by 3 years of age making a joint commitment to act together with others is beginning to engender in children a "we"-intentionality which holds across at least most of the process of the joint activity until the shared goal is achieved, and which withstands at least some of the perturbations to the joint activity children experience.
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Graefenhain , M , Carpenter , M & Tomasello , M 2013 , ' Three-year-olds' understanding of the consequences of joint commitments ' , PLoS One , vol. 8 , no. 9 , e73039 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073039
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PLoS One
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073039
ISSN
1932-6203
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 Gräfenhain et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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No external funding has supported the current work.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4236

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