Children base their investment on calculated pay-off.

To investigate the rise of economic abilities during development we studied children aged between 3 and 10 in an exchange situation requiring them to calculate their investment based on different offers. One experimenter gave back a reward twice the amount given by the children, and a second always...

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Main Authors: Sophie Steelandt, Valérie Dufour, Marie-Hélène Broihanne, Bernard Thierry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3297640?pdf=render