{"pk":26930,"title":"Preschoolers appropriately allocate roles based on relative ability in acooperative interaction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In cooperative activities, all parties have a shared goalbut may not have the same set of skills. The currentstudy considers whether preschoolers are sensitive toprobable differences in individuals’ competence whenallocating roles. We found that 3.5- to 5.5-year-olds userelative competence, as indexed by the age of theirintended partner, to determine who should do the harderand easier of two tasks in a cooperative interaction. Asecond experiment demonstrated that children allocateroles differently in a competitive context. Youngchildren infer differences in others’ ability and candivide labor efficiently to achieve their goals.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cooperation; self/other knowledge;planning."}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20s6q8jn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rachel","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Magid","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Mary","middle_name":"","last_name":"DePascale","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26930/galley/16566/download/"}]}