To give or not to give: children's and adolescents' sharing and moral negotiations in economic decision situations

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 562-576

  Gummerum, Michaela ^a,b   Keller, Monika ^a   Takezawa, Masanori ^a,c   Mata, Jutta ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAME; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGIC; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BERLIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAME THEORY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGIC; MALE; MORALS; NEGOTIATING; PEER GROUP; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 43749090832     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01143.x     Document Type: Article

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