Westhoff, B;
Molleman, L;
Viding, E;
van den Bos, W;
van Duijvenvoorde, ACK;
(2020)
Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments.
Scientific Reports
, 10
, Article 21761. 10.1038/s41598-020-78546-1.
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Abstract
Learning to successfully navigate social environments is a critical developmental goal, predictive of long-term wellbeing. However, little is known about how people learn to adjust to diferent social environments, and how this behaviour emerges across development. Here, we use a series of economic games to assess how children, adolescents, and young adults learn to adjust to social environments that difer in their level of cooperation (i.e., trust and coordination). Our results show an asymmetric developmental pattern: adjustment requiring uncooperative behaviour remains constant across adolescence, but adjustment requiring cooperative behaviour improves markedly across adolescence. Behavioural and computational analyses reveal that age-related diferences in this social learning are shaped by age-related diferences in the degree of inequality aversion and in the updating of beliefs about others. Our fndings point to early adolescence as a phase of rapid change in cooperative behaviours, and highlight this as a key developmental window for interventions promoting well-adjusted social behaviour.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Developmental asymmetries in learning to adjust to cooperative and uncooperative environments |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-78546-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78546-1 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118430 |
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