Conformity Decreases throughout Middle Childhood among Ni-Vanuatu Children: An Intracultural Comparison

Autor/inn/en	Sibilsky, Anne; Colleran, Heidi; McElreath, Richard; Haun, Daniel B. M.
Titel	Conformity Decreases throughout Middle Childhood among Ni-Vanuatu Children: An Intracultural Comparison
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 57 (2021) 9, S.1497-1509 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sibilsky, Anne) ORCID (Colleran, Heidi) ORCID (McElreath, Richard) ORCID (Haun, Daniel B. M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001234
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Private Schools; Children; Preadolescents; Socioeconomic Influences; Student Behavior; Age Differences; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Kindergarten; Social Behavior; Predictor Variables; Instructional Program Divisions; Probability; Vanuatu + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Prädiktor; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Abstract	Multiple studies have shown that children conform to majorities in perceptual judgment tasks against their better knowledge. However, these studies report contradictory results about how conformity develops over age. Here, we study variation in conformity over the course of middle childhood: we examined potential informational and normative motivations underlying conformity, as well as intracultural variability in their age patterns. We measured conformity in both a public and a private setting among 5- to 11-year-olds from eight different communities in Vanuatu (n = 125, 59 boys), a highly diverse society in the South Pacific. We also explored whether selected sociodemographic variables help to explain individual variation in children's conformity. Conformity is lower in both public and private settings the older ni-Vanuatu children are, with conformity in public settings being subject to more developmental and intracultural variation. We infer that normative conformity is more variable than informational conformity. Moreover, we find that children in higher school classes conform less. Our study combines a developmental perspective with an intracultural comparison, and demonstrates that both the publicness of the experimental situation and intracultural variability are important for the understanding of the age patterns of conformity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01