% pubman genre = article @article{item_3223900, title = {{The development of coordination via joint expectations for shared benefits}}, author = {Gr{\"u}neisen, Sebastian and Tomasello, Michael}, language = {eng}, issn = {0012-1649}, doi = {10.1037/dev0000936}, publisher = {American Psychological Association}, address = {Arlington, VA, etc.,}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06}, abstract = {{People frequently need to cooperate despite having strong self-serving motives. In the current study, pairs of 5- and 7-year-olds (N {\textequals} 160) faced a one-shot coordination problem: To benefit, children had to choose the same of 3 reward divisions. They could not communicate or see each other and thus had to accurately predict each other{\textquoteright}s choices to succeed. One division split the rewards evenly, while the others each favored one child. Five-year-olds mostly chose the division favorable to themselves, resulting in coordination failure. By contrast, 7-year-olds mostly coordinated successfully by choosing the division that split the rewards equally (even though they behaved selfishly in a control condition in which they could choose independently). This suggests that by age 7, children jointly expect benefits to be shared among interdependent social partners {\textquotedblleft}fairly{\textquotedblright} and that fair compromises can emanate from a cooperative rationality adapted for social coordination.}}, journal = {{Developmental Psychology}}, volume = {56}, number = {6}, pages = {1149--1156}, }