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Children Hold Leaders Primarily Responsible, Not Entitled
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Title / Series / Name
Child Development
Publication Volume
92
Publication Issue
1
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13988
Abstract
Do children construe leaders as individuals whose position of power entails primarily more responsibility or more entitlement, compared with nonleaders? To address this question, 5-year-old children (n = 128) heard a story involving a hierarchical dyad (a leader and a nonleader) and an egalitarian dyad (two nonleaders), and then assessed protagonists’ relative contributions to a collaborative endeavor (Experiments 1 and 2) or relative withdrawals from a common resource pool earned jointly (Experiment 3). Children expected a leader to contribute more toward a joint goal than its nonleader partner, and to withdraw an equal share (not more) from a common pool. Children thus gave evidence that they construed leaders as more responsible, rather than more entitled, relative to nonleaders.
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Journal article
Date
2021
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10.1111/cdev.13420