Evidence for a sex effect during overimitation: boys copy irrelevant modelled actions more than girls across cultures

Children are skilful at acquiring tool-using skills by faithfully copying relevant and irrelevant actions performed by others, but poor at innovating tools to solve problems. Five- to twelve-year-old urban French and rural Serbian children (N = 208) were exposed to a Hook task; a jar containing a re...

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Main Authors: Aurélien Frick, Fabrice Clément, Thibaud Gruber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.170367