Roman Stengelin

TL;DR: Although the proportion of children engaging in any overimitation was similar across the two populations, German overimitators copied irrelevant actions more persistently across tasks, suggesting that the influence of culture on children's overimitations may be one of degree, not kind.

TL;DR: This paper found that 5-and 7-year-old children were more likely to mistrust information spontaneously provided by the competitive than the cooperative partner, showing a capacity for detecting contextual effects on incentives.

TL;DR: It is suggested that, across diverse cultures, children's imitative behavior is actuated by the attentive state of the model, denoting a social motivation underlying overimitation.

TL;DR: Cross-cultural variation and homogeneity in three- to eight-year-old children’s expressed positive emotions during and explicit preferences for peer collaboration across three diverse populations are shown, providing evidence that culture shapes young children's social motivation for dyadic peer collaboration.

TL;DR: The results suggest that young children from diverse societies are capable of recognizing third-party social exclusion, and their response to such information is strongly shaped by cultural values on social interdependence.