Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task.
Children have a proclivity to learn through faithful imitation, but the extent to which this applies under significant cost remains unclear. To address this, we investigated whether 4‐ to 6‐year‐old children (N = 97) would stop imitating to forego a desirable food reward. We presented participants w...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Developmental Psychology Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 18 - 36 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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