The role of inhibition in young children's altruistic behaviour

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 301-307

  Aguilar Pardo, David ^a,b   Martínez Arias, Rosario ^b   Colmenares, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altruistic sharing; Dictator game; Executive functioning; Inhibitory control; Young children

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ALTRUISM; CANDY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 84880327749     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0552-6     Document Type: Article

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