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| Title |
Children’s Use of Communicative Intent in the Selection of Cooperative Partners
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0061804 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kristen A. Dunfield, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier, Lindsay Murphy |
| Abstract |
Within the animal kingdom, human cooperation represents an outlier. As such, there has been great interest across a number of fields in identifying the factors that support the complex and flexible variety of cooperation that is uniquely human. The ability to identify and preferentially interact with better social partners (partner choice) is proposed to be a major factor in maintaining costly cooperation between individuals. Here we show that the ability to engage in flexible and effective partner choice behavior can be traced back to early childhood. Specifically, across two studies, we demonstrate that by 3 years of age, children identify effective communication as "helpful" (Experiments 1 & 2), reward good communicators with information (Experiment 1), and selectively reciprocate communication with diverse cooperative acts (Experiment 2). Taken together, these results suggest that even in early childhood, humans take advantage of cooperative benefits, while mitigating free-rider risks, through appropriate partner choice behavior. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 55 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 25% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 15% |
| Researcher | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 30 | 55% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 15 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 April 2013.
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#2,925,530
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#38,878
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#25,645
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#859
of 4,967 outputs
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