The role of inhibition in young children's altruistic behaviour
The role of inhibition in young children's altruistic behaviour
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DOI：
10.1007/s10339-013-0552-6
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Colmenares, Fernando
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作者：
Aguilar-Pardo, David;Martinez-Arias, Rosario;Colmenares, Fernando
通过利他行为，个人自愿减少他们的利益，以增加他们的合作伙伴。然而，这种偏离自我利益最大化的功能可能需要认知上的要求。本研究通过独裁者游戏（DG），探讨了4- 6岁儿童的利他分享是否与执行功能的三个指标有关，即抑制控制、工作记忆和认知灵活性。我们发现，在DG中被证明是利他主义的儿童在抑制任务中的表现比非利他主义者更好。这一发现支持的假设，利他主义的分享可能会受到一定程度上限制的儿童的能力，抑制自然倾向，以保护他或她自己的资源。需要大量的研究来了解抑制性控制在成本共享的发展和不公平厌恶的巩固中的作用。
By behaving altruistically, individuals voluntarily reduce their benefits in order to increase their partners'. This deviation from a self-interest-maximizing function may be cognitively demanding, though. This study investigates whether altruistic sharing in 4- to 6-year-old children, assessed by a dictator game (DG), is related to three measures of executive functioning, that is, inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. We found that children who turned out to be altruistic in the DG performed better on an inhibition task than non-altruists did. This finding lends support to the hypothesis that altruistic sharing might be somewhat constrained by the child's ability to inhibit a natural tendency to preserve his or her own resources. Much research is needed to understand the role of inhibitory control in the development of costly sharing and the consolidation of inequity aversion.