Group Membership Trumps Shared Preference in Five-Year-Olds' Resource Allocation, Social Preference, and Social Evaluation.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated five-year-olds' priority between shared preference and group membership in resource allocation, social preference, and social evaluation. Using a forced-choice resource allocation task and a friend choice task, we first demonstrate that five-year-old children distribute more resources to and prefer a character who shares a preference with them when compared to a character who has a different preference. Then, we pitted the shared preference against group membership to investigate children's priority. Children prioritized group membership over shared preference, allotting more resources to and showing more preference toward characters in the same group who did not share their preferences than those from a different group who shared their preferences. Lastly, children

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9197506 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature