Altruistic sharing behavior in children: Role of theory of mind and inhibitory control

Liu, Buyun; Huang, Zhelan; Xu, Guoqing; Yu, Jun; Chen, Yajun; Li, Xiuhong; Wang, Qingxiong; Song, Shanshan; Jin, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.010

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“…Third-party condition c = 0.73 * c' = 0.33 Age Give to other or not a = 0.40 ** b = -1.85 ** it, but its particular role was not confirmed. It suggested that IC played a substantial role in implementing an impartial allocation, which was consistent with findings on children's fair behaviors obtained with other paradigms in previous studies (e.g., Aguilar-Pardo, Martínez-Arias, & Colmenares, 2013; Blake et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016). The choices in Experiment 1, however, could not fully tell whether the role of IC was only for suppressing one's selfish impulses because children in the first-party condition could choose among self-benefit, equity or other-benefit.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…They would even make a self-disadvantageous inequity for efficiency as Shaw and colleagues' study (2016) as well as the current study suggested. All these findings indicated that children would display social behaviors consistent with social expectations (House, 2018), and IC would help to fill the gap between what is socially desirable and their actual performance (Diamond, 2013;Liu et al, 2016;Steinbeis et al, 2012)…”

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confidence: 87%

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“Favoring my playmate seems fair”: Inhibitory control and theory of mind in preschoolers’ self-disadvantaging behaviors

Xie

Pei

2019

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Highlights With interest involved, self-disadvantageous inequity in preschoolers rose with age. The improvement of inhibitory control explained this developmental trajectory. Better theory of mind was associated with self-disadvantaging tendency. AbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between preschoolers' cognitive abilities and their fairness-related allocation behaviors in a dilemma of equity-efficiency conflict. Four-to 6-year-olds in Experiment 1 (N = 99) decided how to allocate 5 reward bells. In the first-party condition, preschoolers were asked to choose among giving more to self (self-advantageous inequity), wasting one bell (equity) or giving more to other (self-disadvantageous inequity); while in the thirdparty condition, they chose to allocate the extra bell to one of two equally deserving recipients or to waste it. Results showed that compared to the pattern of decision in the third-party condition, preschoolers in the firstparty condition were more likely to give the extra bell to other (selfdisadvantaging behaviors), and age, inhibitory control (IC) and theory of mind (ToM) were positively correlated with their self-disadvantaging choices, but only IC mediated the relationship between age and selfdisadvantaging behaviors. Experiment 2 (N = 41) showed that IC still predicted preschoolers' self-disadvantaging behaviors when they could choose only between equity and disadvantageous inequity. These results suggested that IC played a critical role in the implementation of selfdisadvantaging behaviors when this required the control over selfishness and envy.

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Section: First-party Conditionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“Favoring my playmate seems fair”: Inhibitory control and theory of mind in preschoolers’ self-disadvantaging behaviors

Xie

Pei

2019

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…Instead, we used round, yellow, smiley-face foam stickers (diameter = 4 cm). Stickers for 6-and 10-year-old children have also been used in previous studies (e.g., Benenson, Pascoe, & Radmore, 2007;Gummerum & Chu, 2014;Liu et al, 2016). Nevertheless, we made sure that the children liked the stickers during pilot testing, where we gave them the opportunity to choose among different types (which varied in color, size, and shape).…”

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Do sex and age affect strategic behavior and inequity aversion in children?

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Leiva

Colell

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…Ulber, Hamann, and Tomasell (2015) demonstrated that toddlers share resources by ownership cues and by principles of equity, much as Gollnhofer et al (2016, in this issue) discovered for food sharing in Germany. Liu et al (2016) demonstrated that sharing by Chinese children increases as age progresses from 3 to 11, and that greater inhibitory self-control predicts greater sharing.…”

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The Consumer Science of Sharing: A Discussant’s Observations

Rudmin¹

2016

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

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This discussant's response to the collected articles on the consumer behavior of sharing draws on a 1983-99 record of research on the psychology of ownership and property. The major recommendations here are: (1) that sharing be defined as the simultaneous or sequential use of an object (e.g., car), a space (e.g., living room), or an intangible (e.g., identity) by more than one individual; (2) that sharing be better described and analyzed by the naive phenomenology methods used by Ichheiser, Heider, and Goffman; (3) that sharing arising from shared ownership be distinguished from sharing arising from an owner's prerogative to share; (4) that ownership be defined as social and legal protection of possessions for future utility in order to allow owners, as Litwinski theorized, to have relaxed expectations, in French, attente dans la détente; (5) that shopping and purchasing are inventory behaviors that are distinct from, and prior to, consumers' use of inventory; (6) that distributed inventory accessed by digitally mediated sharing (e.g., Uber) be examined as alternative inventory behavior; (7) that scholarship on the "sharing economy" better explore and exploit the literatures in the subfields of (a) ownership theory, (b) child development, (c) inventory management, and (d ) competition theory.

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Altruistic sharing behavior in children: Role of theory of mind and inhibitory control

Cited by 46 publications

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“Favoring my playmate seems fair”: Inhibitory control and theory of mind in preschoolers’ self-disadvantaging behaviors

“Favoring my playmate seems fair”: Inhibitory control and theory of mind in preschoolers’ self-disadvantaging behaviors

Do sex and age affect strategic behavior and inequity aversion in children?

The Consumer Science of Sharing: A Discussant’s Observations

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