Young Children Equally Share Their Rewards, Says Study
A new study claimed that as compared to Chimpanzees, young children, after teamwork shared their rewards. The Nature journal made the research public.
The research was carried out by Germany professors at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Katharina Hamann, one of the lead researchers, tracked two different age group kids, especially 3-year-old kids and investigated that how literally they shared their recompenses.
The previous studies claimed that as compared to adults, kids out of selfishness, never used to share their rewards, so for a further elaboration, the researcher planned to investigate these kids and his study proved that if the kids were given the appropriate situations, the 3-year-old children happily shared their rewards.
To get her findings, an interesting experiment was designed by her. According to it, two pairs were made and with the help of a rope, they were asked to pull the reward board, which contained marbles.
The experiment concluded that as compared to the two-year-old kids, 75% of the time of the three-year-old kids equally distributed the marbles.
Dr Emma Collier-Baker, a comparative psychologist at the University of Queensland, quoted that the result were interesting and well controlled.
She added, "It's interesting that the two-year-olds and chimps didn't show increased sharing, but three-year-old children did".