{"pk":50443,"title":"Children's expectations of dominant and prestigious leaders","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Humans are enmeshed in many hierarchical relationships, such as that between a parent and child. Leaders in dominance hierarchies are typically strong and intimidating, while leaders in prestige hierarchies are respected for their expertise. In an ongoing study (N=13), we ask whether preschoolers ages 4–5 have different expectations about how dominant and prestigious leaders divide resources. Children learned about two social groups, the dominant Glerks and prestigious Zonks. Children watched a leader and subordinate from each group pick five apples and divide them into two baskets in a 5-0 or 3-2 split. We then pointed to one basket and asked children whether the leader or subordinate took that share of apples. In preliminary results, we find that children expect the dominant (76.9%) but not prestigious leader (46.2%) to take all of the apples, which suggests that children expect dominant leaders to claim a larger share of resources.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Development; Reasoning; Social cognition; Developmental analysis"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gt7k2d7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Renee","middle_name":"","last_name":"Creppy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Natalia","middle_name":"A","last_name":"VŽlez","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50443/galley/38405/download/"}]}