Trial reportJournal of experimental child psychology2020
The development of social comparisons and sharing behavior across 12 countries.
Trial report in Journal of experimental child psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Influence of Considering Others' Emotions on Children's Resource Distribution.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026Article
- Stable intuition and the rise of deliberative prosociality in childhood.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Elementary School Classrooms.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Young dictators-Speaking about oneself decreases generosity in children from two cultural contexts.PloS one · 2024Article
- Variations in limited resources allocation towards friends and strangers in children and adolescents from seven economically and culturally diverse societies.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Is Distributional Justice Equivalent to Prosocial Sharing in Children's Cognition?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Social Comparison Information Influences Intentions to Reduce Single-Use Plastic Water Bottle Consumption.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Parental Social Comparison Related to Tutoring Anxiety, and Guided Approaches to Assisting Their Children's Home Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Why do preschoolers perpetuate inequalities? Theoretical perspectives on inequity preferences in the face of emerging concerns for equality.Developmental review : DR · 2020Article
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Abstract
Humans are social beings, and acts of prosocial behavior may be influenced by social comparisons. To study the development of prosociality and the impact of social comparisons on sharing, we conducted experiments with nearly 2500 children aged 3-12 years across 12 countries across five continents. Children participated in a dictator game where they had the opportunity to share up to 10 of their stickers with another anonymous child. Then, children were randomized to one of two treatments. In the "shared a little" treatment children were told that another child from their school had shared 1 sticker, whereas in the "shared a lot" treatment children were told that another child from their school had shared 6 stickers in the same game. There was a strong increase in baseline sharing with age in all countries and in both treatments. The "shared a lot" treatment had a positive treatment effect in increasing sharing overall, which varied across countries. However, cross-cultural comparisons did not yield expected significant differences between collectivist and individualist countries. Our results provide interesting evidence for the development of sharing behavior by age across the world and show that social information about the sharing of peers is important for children's decision making.
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