Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kanngiesser, Patricia ^a   Warneken, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MERIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; REWARD;

EID: 84865589049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043979     Document Type: Article

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