Five-year-olds punish antisocial adults.
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Summary
The willingness of preschoolers to spontaneously engage in third-party punishment, occasionally even risking the social costs of antagonizing an anti-social adult, demonstrates a deep-seated early-developing punitive sentiment in humans.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2014-11-01
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 50
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1778409431
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Keywords
Punitive damages, Punishment (psychology), Psychology, Social psychology, Formative assessment
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