What do children value more in a collaborator - Problem-solving capacity or fair sharing?

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dc.abstract.enCollaboration requires individuals to find partners who are adept at problem-solving and act fairly when sharing the spoils of joint labor. Given that individuals might vary along both dimensions, it can create a dilemma with the challenging decision of whether to prioritize a potential partner’s capacity to perform a task or the partner’s level of fairness in sharing obtained resources. Here we tested whether young children can solve this dilemma when two potential partners have opposing qualities: One partner is high in the capacity to solve a problem but less likely to share fairly, whereas the other partner is lower in capacity but fair. In two studies with a total of N = 188 children aged 4 to 6 years, we found that children adjust their decisions based on the social context and the perceived difficulty of the collaborative task: Children show an overall preference for fair partners when collaborating in an easy task, but they choose partners high in problem-solving capacity and low in fairness when collaborating in a more difficult task. These results show that already young children can evaluate others along two dimensions and make trade-offs between capacity and fairness when deciding what is more relevant for a given situation.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorMyślińska-Szarek, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorWarneken, Felix
dc.date.access2026-09-17
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-09T09:51:49Z
dc.date.available2025-01-09T09:51:49Z
dc.date.created2024-08-21
dc.date.issued2025-01
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.additionalvorBardzo proszę o zmianę statusu artykułu na opublikowany. Artykuł ukazał sie w czasopiśmie, w styczniu 2025: Volume 249, January 2025, 106070
dc.description.grantnumberBPN/BEK/2021/1/00311/U/00001
dc.description.physical1-18
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume249
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106070
dc.identifier.eissn1096-0457
dc.identifier.issn0022-0965
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/887
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096524002108?via%3Dihub
dc.languageen
dc.language.abstracten
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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dc.subject.enFairness
dc.subject.enCapacity
dc.subject.enPreschoolers
dc.subject.enProsociality
dc.subject.enCooperation
dc.subject.enMorality
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dc.titleWhat do children value more in a collaborator - Problem-solving capacity or fair sharing?
dc.title.journalJournal of Experimental Child Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle