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Children's Initial Responses and Beyond: Effects of Niceness and Similarity on Preference, Giving, and Memory
- Source :
- Child development. 90(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study assessed children's preference, giving, and memory to investigate the impact of social information over time. We compared 5- and 6-year-olds' (N = 144) immediate or delayed responses to an individual who does or does not share their toy preference (similar vs. dissimilar) or an individual who treats others kindly or poorly (nice vs. mean). Immediately, children all preferred the similar or nice characters but gave more stickers to the similar character. This strong initial effect of similarity was not evident after 1 week; children's preference, giving, and memory reflected a greater long-term impact of niceness than similarity. These findings highlight the importance of using multiple features and measures to elucidate children's evolving views about others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- Male
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Individuality
Nice
Altruism
Choice Behavior
050105 experimental psychology
Education
Developmental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Similarity (psychology)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Interpersonal Relations
Social information
Child
Social Behavior
media_common
computer.programming_language
Social Identification
05 social sciences
Socialization
Preference
Character (mathematics)
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Mental Recall
Female
Psychology
computer
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14678624
- Volume :
- 90
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3c3c043b1c3738b268640158b26a8d33