Cooperation and Competition

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 472-490

  Schneider, Barry H ^a   Benenson, Joyce ^b   Fülöp, Márta ^c   Berkics, Mihaly ^c   Sándor, Mónika ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Children's preferences for cooperative or competitive interaction assessed mainly with dyadic games; Competition and cooperation as seen by children; Competition and cooperation characteristics of social situations; Competition and cooperation characteristics of social situations, psychological states of participants; Competition, something harmful negative consequences for children's psychosocial development; Cooperation and competition; Cooperation, beneficial effects for peer acceptance; Developmental unfolding of competitive and cooperative behavior; Dominance of males over females in mixed sex interactions early in life; Engagement in competition interaction of individual and situation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874774577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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