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