Developmental and Cross-Cultural Differences in the Cooperative and Competitive Behavior of Young Children
- 1 December 1971
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Vol. 2 (4), 365-371
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002202217100200406
Abstract
A two-person experimental task was developed for use in the study of age and cultural differences in the cooperative-competitive behavior of children in a small Mexican town and in California. The results indicate a higher level of cooperation among Mexican than among Anglo-American children and an increase in nonadaptive competition with age among the Anglo-American children.Keywords
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