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SUBMITTER: Grafenhain M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3762880 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gräfenhain Maria M Carpenter Malinda M Tomasello Michael M
PloS one 20130904 9
Here we investigate the extent of children's understanding of the joint commitments inherent in joint activities. Three-year-old children either made a joint commitment to assemble a puzzle with a puppet partner, or else the child and puppet each assembled their own puzzle. Afterwards, children who had made the joint commitment were more likely to stop and wait for their partner on their way to fetch something, more likely to spontaneously help their partner when needed, and more likely to take ...[more]