Uniquely Human Self-Control Begins at School Age

Autor/inn/en	Herrmann, Esther; Misch, Antonia; Hernandez-Lloreda, Victoria; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Uniquely Human Self-Control Begins at School Age
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 18 (2015) 6, S.979-993 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.12272
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Young Children; Animals; Animal Behavior; Child Behavior; Self Control; Responses; Age Differences; Decision Making; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Tierverhalten; Selbstbeherrschung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Human beings have remarkable skills of self-control, but the evolutionary origins of these skills are unknown. Here we compare children at 3 and 6 years of age with one of humans' two nearest relatives, chimpanzees, on a battery of reactivity and self-control tasks. Three-year-old children and chimpanzees were very similar in their abilities to resist an impulse for immediate gratification, repeat a previously successful action, attend to a distracting noise, and quit in the face of repeated failure. Six-year-old children were more skillful than either 3-year-olds or chimpanzees at controlling their impulses. These results suggest that humans' most fundamental skills of self-control--as part of the overall decision-making process--are a part of their general great ape heritage, and that their species-unique skills of self-control begin at around the age at which many children begin formal schooling. (As Provided).
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