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The influence of others’ emotions on 4-year-olds' distributive behaviors

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2014, 27(2), pp.113-129
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

유하나 1,  이지현 2,  Hyun Joo SONG 1,  Young-HoonKim 2

1연세대학교
2연세 해피마인드 클리닉

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The current study investigated whether predicting others’ emotions affects 4-year-olds’ sharing behavior during dictator games. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to allocate 10 stickers between themselves and a monkey puppet shown in a photo. Children in the experimental condition, but not those in the control condition, were told that the monkey would draw a picture of how he felt about the amount of stickers he received. Children in the experimental condition allocated significantly more stickers to the recipient than did those in the control condition, suggesting that an understanding of others’ emotions promoted altruistic distribution. In Experiment 2, we examined whether the presence of the recipient in the setting would affect children’s distribution of resources. The procedure was identical to that of Experiment 1 except that participants were asked to give stickers to a monkey puppet in a face-to-face setting. In Experiment 2, children in both conditions donated stickers about equally between themselves and the monkey puppet, which resembled results of the experimental condition from Experiment 1. These results suggest that considering others’ emotions as well as an awareness of another’s presence promotes children’s fair distribution.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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