Prospective thinking and decision making in primary school age children

摘要: In this study, we seek to widen our understanding of the developmental processes underlying bargaining behaviour in children addressing concept prospective thinking. We argue that emergence capacity think prospectively about future outcomes or behaviours response current actions is a required precedent strategic decision making. To test idea, compared 6, 8 and 10 years old children's performance on three tasks: ultimatum game assessing fairness/inequality aversion, marshmallow task, an intertemporal choice task evaluating ability delay gratification, dictator altruism. The socio-demographic cognitive variables were also evaluated. hypothesized development thinking related increased gratification - given both tasks require looking at benefits and, crucially, not altruism, which from immediate selfless reward. Our results confirmed hypothesis suggesting planning with age would stem competencies like