Money Cues Increase Agency and Decrease Prosociality Among Children: Early Signs of Market-Mode Behaviors

Psychological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 331-344

  Gasiorowska, Agata ^a   Chaplin, Lan Nguyen ^b   Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz ^a   Wygrab, Sandra ^a   Vohs, Kathleen D ^c  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; children; generosity; helping; money; open data; open materials; performance; persistence; prosociality

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84960864183     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615620378     Document Type: Article

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