“…Our results build on evidence that reputation-enhancing behavior starts in early childhood (for reviews, see Engelmann & Rapp, 2018; Silver & Shaw, 2018) and are consistent with evidence that young children’s beliefs about other people’s states of knowledge can guide their behavior (Asaba & Gweon, 2022; Fast et al, 2022; Leimgruber et al, 2012), even if no potential evaluators are present (Ma et al, 2020; Rapp et al, 2019). In addition, the present work offers a new way to quantify the effects of social motives and compare them with the effects of other types of motives.…”