Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator's group affiliation

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-333

  Schmidt, Marco F H ^a   Rakoczy, Hannes ^b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ingroup outgroup categorization; Moral conventional distinction; Normativity; Parochialism; Social norms; Social cognitive development; Third party norm enforcement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84864056244     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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