Children in Multicultural Malaysia Prefer Their Ingroup Over an Outgroup but Imitate Indiscriminately.
This study scrutinised whether children's imitative tendency varied depending on the model's ethnicity in a multicultural nation, Malaysia. 123 Malaysian Chinese and Malay children aged four to six were shown how to complete two goal‐oriented, tool‐use tasks using either an inefficient but normative...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Developmental Psychology Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 724 - 740 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2026
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