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Domberg A, Tomasello M, Köymen B. Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition. PLoS One. 2021;16(2):e0246589doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246589.
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Domberg A, Tomasello M, Köymen B. Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition. PLoS One. 2021 Feb 05;16(2):e0246589. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246589. eCollection 2021. PMID: 33544768; PMCID: PMC7864449.
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PLoS One. 2021 Feb 05;16(2):e0246589. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246589. eCollection 2021.

Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition.

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Andreas Domberg, Michael Tomasello, Bahar Köymen

Affiliations

  1. Max Planck Research Group iSearch, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
  2. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
  3. Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
  4. School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33544768 PMCID: PMC7864449 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246589

Abstract

A key skill in collaborative problem-solving is to communicate and evaluate reasons for proposals to arrive at the decision benefiting all group members. Although it is well-documented that collaborative contexts facilitate young children's reasoning, less is known about whether competition with other groups contributes to children's collaborative reasoning. We investigated whether between-group competition facilitates children's within-group collaborative reasoning, regarding their production of reasons and their use of transacts, communicative acts that operate on one another's proposals and reasoning. We presented 5- and 7-year-old peer dyads with two collaborative problem-solving tasks (decorating a zoo and a dollhouse). In one task, children competed against another group (the competitive condition); whereas in the other task, they did not (non-competitive condition). Our results suggest that children's sensitivity to group competition as reflected in their reasoning changed depending on the task. When they decorated a house, they produced more transacts in the competitive condition than in the non-competitive condition; whereas when they decorated a zoo, this pattern was reversed. Thus, our results highlight that group competition did not influence children's collaborative reasoning consistently across different contexts.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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