TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's capacity to use cultural focal points in coordination problems
AU - Goldvicht-Bacon, Efrat
AU - Diesendruck, Gil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Coordination problems require one to act based on expectations about how partners will act. In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (n= 57) had to hide a sticker in the box another child from their, or a different, culture was most likely to search in. Boxes were marked with cues presumed to be known by everybody, cultural members, or the child. Experiment 2 assessed 5-year-olds' (n= 57) behavior in a competition scenario. In Experiment 1, children were more likely to hide in the cultural box when playing with a same- than a different-culture partner. In Experiment 2, children's behavior was the opposite. Thus by age 5, children are capable of modulating their actions in coordination problems, according to their partners' presumed knowledge.
AB - Coordination problems require one to act based on expectations about how partners will act. In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (n= 57) had to hide a sticker in the box another child from their, or a different, culture was most likely to search in. Boxes were marked with cues presumed to be known by everybody, cultural members, or the child. Experiment 2 assessed 5-year-olds' (n= 57) behavior in a competition scenario. In Experiment 1, children were more likely to hide in the cultural box when playing with a same- than a different-culture partner. In Experiment 2, children's behavior was the opposite. Thus by age 5, children are capable of modulating their actions in coordination problems, according to their partners' presumed knowledge.
KW - Children
KW - Common knowledge
KW - Cooperation/competition
KW - Coordination problem
KW - Cultural group membership
KW - Focal points
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955489662&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.016
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.016
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C2 - 26826539
AN - SCOPUS:84955489662
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 149
SP - 95
EP - 103
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
ER -