Five-year olds choose to 'play nice' based on other kids' reputations - full text

Chris Engel 8/7/136:12 PM

"Five-to-six-year olds are more likely to be kind to peers after observing them interacting with other children in positive ways, suggesting that children establish a sense of their peers' 'reputation' early in life. The results are published August 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Kenji Onishi and colleagues from Osaka University, Japan...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-five-year-olds-nice-based-kids.html

Kato-Shimizu, et al. (2013). "Preschool Children’s Behavioral Tendency toward Social Indirect Reciprocity." PLOS One.

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