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Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds.

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Ulber, J; Hamann, K; Tomasello, M
Published in: Child development
July 2016

Two studies investigated the influence of external rewards and social praise in young children's fairness-related behavior. The motivation of ninety-six 3-year-olds' to equalize unfair resource allocations was measured in three scenarios (collaboration, windfall, and dictator game) following three different treatments (material reward, verbal praise, and neutral response). In all scenarios, children's willingness to engage in costly sharing was negatively influenced when they had received a reward for equal sharing during treatment than when they had received praise or no reward. The negative effect of material rewards was not due to subjects responding in kind to their partner's termination of rewards. These results provide new evidence for the intrinsic motivation of prosociality-in this case, costly sharing behavior-in preschool children.

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Child development

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EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

July 2016

Volume

87

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1192 / 1203

Related Subject Headings

  • Reward
  • Motivation
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child Behavior
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education
 

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Ulber, J., Hamann, K., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds. Child Development, 87(4), 1192–1203. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12534
Ulber, Julia, Katharina Hamann, and Michael Tomasello. “Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds.Child Development 87, no. 4 (July 2016): 1192–1203. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12534.
Ulber J, Hamann K, Tomasello M. Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds. Child development. 2016 Jul;87(4):1192–203.
Ulber, Julia, et al. “Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds.Child Development, vol. 87, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 1192–203. Epmc, doi:10.1111/cdev.12534.
Ulber J, Hamann K, Tomasello M. Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds. Child development. 2016 Jul;87(4):1192–1203.
Journal cover image

Published In

Child development

DOI

EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

July 2016

Volume

87

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1192 / 1203

Related Subject Headings

  • Reward
  • Motivation
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child Behavior
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education