Family Income Affects Children's Altruistic Behavior in the Dictator Game

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	Family Income Affects Children's Altruistic Behavior in the Dictator Game
	Chen, Yongxiang1,2 ; Zhu, Liqi1 ; Chen, Zhe 3
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2013
卷号	8 期号:11 页码:e80419
ISSN号	1932-6203
通讯作者	Zhu, LQ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	1
英文摘要	This study aimed to examine how family income and social distance influence young rural Chinese children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game (DG). A total of 469 four-year-old children from eight rural areas in China, including many children left behind by parents who had migrated to urban areas for work, played the DG. Stickers comprised the resource, while recipients in the game were assumed to be either their friends or strangers, with the social distance (i.e., strangers compared to friends) as a between-subjects variable. Children donated significantly more stickers to their friends than to strangers. Moreover, children from lower income families donated more stickers than children from higher income families. However, no gender and parental migrant status differences in children's prosocial behaviors were evident in this sample. Findings of this study suggest that children's altruistic behaviours to peers are influenced by family characteristics since preschool age. The probable influence of local socialization practices on development and the possible adaptive significance were discussed.
学科主题	Developmental psychology，Social psychology
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
类目[WOS]	Multidisciplinary Sciences
研究领域[WOS]	Science & Technology - Other Topics
关键词[WOS]	RECIPROCAL ALTRUISM ; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR ; SIBLING CHILDREN ; YOUNG-CHILDREN ; CHINA ; DISCRIMINATION ; CATEGORIZATION ; EVOLUTION ; SOCIETIES
收录类别	SCI
项目简介	This work was supported by Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJZD-EW-L04 and Y1CX012Y01), the 973 program(2010CB8339004) and National Science Foundation of China (30970911). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
原文出处	http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0080419&representation=PDF
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000327252100156
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10724]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Calif Davis, Dept Human & Community Dev, Davis, CA 95616 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Yongxiang,Zhu, Liqi,Chen, Zhe. Family Income Affects Children's Altruistic Behavior in the Dictator Game[J]. PLOS ONE,2013,8(11):e80419.
APA	Chen, Yongxiang,Zhu, Liqi,&Chen, Zhe.(2013).Family Income Affects Children's Altruistic Behavior in the Dictator Game.PLOS ONE,8(11),e80419.
MLA	Chen, Yongxiang,et al."Family Income Affects Children's Altruistic Behavior in the Dictator Game".PLOS ONE 8.11(2013):e80419.