1-196 - New directions in social collaboration: Children create rules, solve tasks, and even lie collaboratively

Session Type: Paper Session

Integrative Statement

One of the central tasks children must learn early in development is how to solve problems. Solving problems can be especially challenging, but also more successful, when working with others. Using diverse methods and ages, these four talks explore how children work together to achieve both positive and negative ends. The first talk explores how children seek input from others upon struggling with an unsolvable task. The second talk explores how children collaboratively develop novel rules to solve a unique but collective problem. In the third talk, researchers explore how and when children engage in an unlikely form of collaboration—collaborative lying. And finally, the last talk explores how children (and adults) build on the work of others to design more effective solutions. Across these talks, we learn that young children are surprisingly adept at understanding the utility of other people as sources of information, fellow brainstormers, and sneaky co-conspirators.

Sub Unit

• Social Cognition

Chair

• Cristine H Legare, University of Texas at Austin

Individual Presentations

• Young children spontaneously initiate social interaction in response to an unsolvable task - Presenting Author: Nadja Richter, University of Minnesota; Kirsten A Dalrymple, University of Minnesota; Olivia Engel, University of Minnesota; Sami Kopf, University of Minnesota; Jed T Elison, University of Minnesota

• Rules Created by Groups of Children Facilitate Coordination in a Recurrent Conflict of Interest - Presenting Author: Sebastian Grueneisen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

• Non-Verbal Markers of Collaborative Lying in a Dyadic Context - Presenting Author: Hilal Sen, Koc University; Ceren Bozkurt, Koc University; Seren Zeynep Vardar, Koc University; Aylin Küntay, Koç University

• Innovation by Imitation: Preschoolers and Adults Evidence Innovate by Summative Imitation - Presenting Author: Francys Subiaul, George Washington University