Enactment of third-party punishment by four-year-olds

When prompted, preschoolers advocate punishment for moral transgressions against third parties, but little is known about whether and how they might act out such punishment. In this study, adult demonstrators enacted doll stories in which a perpetrator child doll made an unprovoked attack on a victi...

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Main Authors: Ben eKenward, Therese eÖsth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00373/full